Comment by Paŭlo Ebermann on Swag is coming back! (indefinitely paused)
Am I the only one who read "sock puppet" instead of "pop socket"? (I guess we can convert the socks into sock puppets.)
View ArticleComment by Paŭlo Ebermann on Opt-in alpha test for a new Stacks editor
@BenKelly in cases like this one (where it's arguably a user mistake), having some highlighting of the error might make sense. Maybe make the starting star red?
View ArticleComment by Paŭlo Ebermann on Opt-in alpha test for a new Stacks editor
@BenKelly What about people on tablets, which have big screens, but no keyboard?
View ArticleComment by Paŭlo Ebermann on Opt-in alpha test for a new Stacks editor
@BenKelly if there is enough vertical space, maybe have two or more rows?
View ArticleComment by Paŭlo Ebermann on Opt-in alpha test for a new Stacks editor
@MichałLipok I don't expect the rich text editor to parse the markdown when pasting from the markdown editor, but at least having the same result I would get when pasting the same content from some...
View ArticleComment by Paŭlo Ebermann on Profile image changes (Gravatar images won’t be...
@animuson I suppose you (SO) have some kind of contractual relation with Imgur – maybe you can suggest that feature (retain transparency when resizing) to them?
View ArticleComment by Paŭlo Ebermann on Profile image changes (Gravatar images won’t be...
@Kevin Gravatar allows uploading your own images, not just displaying the auto-generated icon you get when you don't (e.g. my Profile image is one I've uploaded to Gravatar, so I'm represented by the...
View ArticleComment by Paŭlo Ebermann on Planned maintenance scheduled for Wednesday, 21...
@ShadowTheKidWizard I think the idea is that there is no need to answer new questions for a while, which means people doing so have a break.
View ArticleComment by Paŭlo Ebermann on What kind of percentages are reasonable for...
+1 for the "Ideal" and "Pre-process" sections – I'd hope that most conflicts would be solved in this stage, and not need the big vote.
View ArticleComment by Paŭlo Ebermann on What kind of percentages are reasonable for...
I guess this could be a step before the big process is invoked – if 3 mods agree, a different person from the community team takes another look (and, if needed, discusses it in the team). I don't think...
View ArticleComment by Paŭlo Ebermann on GPT on the platform: Data, actions, and outcomes
As I understand, this will affect the percentage of new users who stick on the site, but it shouldn't lead to more users leaving?
View ArticleComment by Paŭlo Ebermann on GPT on the platform: Data, actions, and outcomes
@Gilles'SO-stopbeingevil' – what do I use a high-rep SO profile for? Pretend I'm a qualified developer and get a good-paying job? Post spam that won't be deleted?
View ArticleComment by Paŭlo Ebermann on Our Design Vision for Stack Overflow and the...
I think it's meant to filter (or sort) the answers, but I guess that was a bad copy+paste.
View ArticleAnswer by Paŭlo Ebermann for Should votes be unlocked after comments, not...
Actually, this might useful in the other direction:Assume an answer looks good, so I upvote it. But then someone comments and points out a critical flaw which shows that this answer actually can't...
View ArticleHelp wanted: clean up the [future] tag
I just found the future tag on Stack Overflow.Most questions there (now 109 non-closed) ask about events that will or will not happen in the future (relative to the time the question was asked or is...
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Have site autocompletion for chat work with domain names as well as site titles
The site-specific chat tab on https://chat.stackexchange.com/?tab=site shows by default the chat rooms for one's own home site (crypto SE for me). There is a link "more sites", which allows selecting...
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Unregistered user can delete his account, even when having upvoted questions...
Today I found a new question on Crypto.SE (with nonsense content), posted by a non-existing user account.The question is now deleted, but devs should be able to look it up:...
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Scrolling the result table in data-explorer horizontally does not scroll the...
I just had a look at this query What posts have I edited that were not mine?. Its result is a quite wide table (more than twice the screen width with my browser), so horizontally scrolling is...
View ArticleAnswer by Paŭlo Ebermann for How do I contact a user privately, as a moderator?
There are these options, as far as I know:Open a private chat room for this purpose, give this user the right to join, and super-ping him there.This is the preferred way for minor things.Send a...
View ArticleCould we allow linking to subsections of the site FAQ's editable part?...
Possible Duplicate:Custom sections in FAQ don't work rightOnly the first part of each site's FAQ (the part between »What kind of questions can I ask here?« and »What kind of questions should I not ask...
View ArticleAnswer by Paŭlo Ebermann for Could we have the ability to mark a change as...
(I just was typing this for a question which then got closed as a duplicate before I finished. I'll post it here, thus.)There are several points to think about, here.The edit bumps questions to front...
View ArticleAnswer by Paŭlo Ebermann for Help translate the Stack Exchange UI (unofficial)
Our prototype now supports both German and French, by using different dictionary files. UsageInstall the user scripts into your browser. You need:A dictionary file (dictionary-*.user.js) (de, fr)The...
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Is 21 not enough reputation to go to chat? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:How long does it take for chat profiles to update?I recently tried to help this user on a question, and we got in a longish exchange about how to solve this. Eventually the reminder...
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Have a higher-resolution flair for printing
For the Stack Overflow meetup today, I thought I would print out my flair image - one of these:But unfortunately they have a resolution of only 208×58 pixels, which is not quite enough to print them...
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The combined flair does show only my Area 51 account [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:What happened to my flair?So I just had the idea to print out my combined Stack Exchange flair for the Stack Overflow Meetup day ... and this is what I see:Here is the live...
View ArticleWhere are questions about wget usage on topic?
I just had a question about wget usage (for Rip javadocs from a doc site to a local zip file), and wondered where to post it. Here the wget tags on the sites I checked:ServerFault (83)SuperUser...
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Answer by Paŭlo Ebermann for The excerpts at the top of tag question lists...
I just stumbled on this (since a user is just providing some tag wikis, and I'm approving and editing them).This would be less annoying if it didn't loose all formatting from the blurb of text which is...
View ArticleAnswer by Paŭlo Ebermann for How do users of Stack Overflow make money?
If you are on Stack Overflow to make money, you probably are here for the wrong reasons.I think most answererswant to give back since they got help before,want to help others, or "make the Internet a...
View ArticleCan I accept an already rejected edit (to my own post)? [duplicate]
Today, someone proposed an edit to one of my answers. Before I got to see the notification, the edit already was rejected by other people (three rejections, one approval).But the edit was actually a...
View ArticleTwo yearling badges on the same day?
I just randomly looked at the contributions of fivetwentisix, and there it lists two yearling badges, both awarded with about five minutes time difference on Aug 16. Actually, this user is here for 2...
View ArticleAnswer by Paŭlo Ebermann for Combine flag and edit queues from main and meta...
While we didn't have a single flag on meta.crypto in all time¹, according to our moderator tools (though I think I did flag something before becoming moderator), I think this is a good idea.Not being...
View ArticleHow should questions about compiler errors be titled? [closed]
After seeing I've found a particular set of "question"s with bad titles; how should I proceed?, I went on to go through my tags and edit some of those questions.Now I went to the javac tag, and found...
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Chat-migrated comments: "Discussion between ..."
While it is not listed in the Recent feature changes to Stack Exchange, there seems to be a new feature which allows migrating longer comment threads to chat. Or I suddenly got more chatty, I remarked...
View ArticleCould the search result please stay in the same tab if I change some search...
I recently do often search queries like title:problem [java] closed:0 on Stack Overflow.These give quite a lot of results, and are in no particular order ("Relevance", whatever this means). Thus I...
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Answer by Paŭlo Ebermann for Is it possible to put a Stack Overflow icon on...
Having seen your example, I would think this is not a really good idea - you just put a row of logos. This does not really help the people who want to contact you (or know something about you). Better...
View ArticleWhich actions using the 10k-moderator-tools do really help the diamond...
So, I'm now (for some weeks) a user with more than 10k reputation (on Stack Overflow). I can access the moderation tools, one of them is the flagged posts page. This lists some of the flags on posts...
View ArticleAnswer by Paŭlo Ebermann for Le proposte del tipo " in " creano inaccettabili...
So, your point of view is that everyone who is important will know English enough to participate in an English-only site, and people who are not able to do so, must be excluded, just so the...
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Answer by Paŭlo Ebermann for Would anyone be interested in QR codes for...
I just printed out a QR code for http://crypto.stackexchange.com and glued it to the whiteboard in the university's computer pool. But I don't really have a way of measuring how much this would be...
View ArticleAnswer by Paŭlo Ebermann for Times before 10 am should show leading 0 for hours
If we want to go with the ISO 8601 standard, then do it fully, not only for the time portion.This would mean to write 2011-04-29 00:57 for your second example above.If we leave the date as Apr 29 (or...
View ArticleWhy do I get more votes for simple answers?
Often the amount of work for an answer to a question and the reputation gain for this answer are inversely proportional.For example, today I answered six questions on Stackoverflow, and two of them...
View ArticleTag synonyms: show suggestions to people who can vote
I just found (by surfing other questions) the dsl tag (which seems to be used mainly for domain-specific languages, although there is no tag wiki yet), and saw that there also is the...
View ArticleAnswer by Paŭlo Ebermann for What kind of percentages are reasonable for...
I don't have an opinion on the numbers, but the voting system in general:The placeholder numbers are:a minimum of 20% of Stack Exchange network moderators must vote on if a violation was committeda...
View ArticleCan I submit an edit for approval after earning 2k reputation?
I have now enough reputation points on Stack Overflow to edit every post directly. But sometimes (especially if this is about a field where I'm not savvy, or when I try to edit a question title without...
View ArticleComment by Paŭlo Ebermann on Our Partnership with OpenAI
"Attribution is non-negotiable" could be read as "we were not able to negotiate attribution into the contract" ;-)
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