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Why is SE staff violating SE policy by un-featuring posts about the strike on per-site Metas?
There have been several cases where SE staff has removed the featured tag from per-site Meta posts in relation to the strike, despite no (public) statement from SE regarding that.
Unless there is a ...
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Stack Exchange Moderator FAQ
As per the FAQ for Stack Exchange sites, this FAQ will serve the following purposes:
To be the canonical reference for moderators across the Stack Exchange sites for things that are beyond question (...
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Moderation strike: Conclusion and the way forward
Negotiations between strike representatives and Stack Exchange, Inc. have come to a close, with a mutually acceptable agreement being reached and announced. With that agreement being reached, we'd ...
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Can we have *.stackexchange.com aliases for sites that have their own domain names?
I have a Chrome search engine of the form https://%s.stackexchange.com/ that I use to quickly move between various SE sites (I find this more efficient than bumbling my way through the multicollider).
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Update the "new contributor" indicator on meta to say "new contributor to meta"
Earlier today I saw the New Contributor indicator attached to a user who had 2,700 reputation and had been a member of the site for over 2 years. When I went to leave a comment, I saw a banner of “(...
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Posts destroyed as spam should trigger a retroactive audit failure for previous "No Action Needed" votes
As a moderator on Stack Overflow, I regularly look through the review history of obvious spam that has lasted more than an hour or so on the site. I often find one or two reviewers who voted "No ...
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Markdown change: Intra-word emphasis now works
There are tons of questions I could maybe post this as an answer to, but before choosing the best one, I'll just post this as an announcement question that can be linked elsewhere.
The short story
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Bump a deleted answer when it's undeleted, not when it's edited
When a deleted answer is edited, that bumps the thread to the front page and to the active questions list. When a deleted answer is undeleted, that does not bump the thread.
That edits on a deleted ...
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Give users a way to see their "Positive Question Record" score
I recently got awarded some new badges for different SE sites, however I was a bit surprised at which sites gave me which badges.
The badges are :
Asked a well-received question on 5 separate days, ...
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We're regenerating all Gravatar identicons
We've recently discovered a vulnerability in our identicon generation process. To remedy it, we have changed how we approach generating them and regenerated all identicons. We do not have any ...
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Make it clear what exactly we flagged
In the flag summary page, we see now all kinds of flags we submitted including comment flags that until recently were not visible in the summary except for raw number on the side. That's all good.
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How can we improve the Stack Exchange API?
The Stack Exchange API allows users to programmatically query and connect to the Stack Exchange Network of sites.
The API is currently in version 2.3. We’re collecting feedback from users of the API, ...
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Nailing it up on your Community Bulletin Board
Community Bulletin was redesigned on June 23, 2014
More info on Redesigned community bulletin.
As some of you may have noticed, there's a new feature on Stack Exchange:
The Community Bulletin box is ...
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How is question quality measured in A/B tests?
As sites grow, there's a noticeable increase in community unhappiness with question quality. Quite a bit of the problem is simply a matter of scale, but sites sometimes optimize for extremes. Bad ...
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