An advance-fee fraud is a confidence trick in which the target is persuaded to advance sums of money in the hope of realizing a significantly larger gain. Among the variations on this type of scam are the Nigerian Letter (also called the 419 fraud, Nigerian scam, Nigerian bank scam, or Nigerian money offer), the Spanish Prisoner, the black money scam as well as Russian/Ukrainian scam (also widespread, though far less popular than the former). The so-called Russian and Nigerian scams stand for wholly dissimilar organized-crime traditions; they therefore tend to use altogether different bre...
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Wow, I'm so glad I use facebook Stack Exchange.
Every time any website with a non-trivial number of users rolls out a UI change, everyone has to get all up in arms about it. (And yes, I used to be guilty of this, too.)
Why is that? Two factors are at play. First, humans are wired to dislike cha...
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Could we put a cap on reputation earned by asking questions?
I am starting to wonder if we should cap reputation gained for questions.
I have historically resisted this, but:
It does seem nonsensical that users can get 10,000+ reputation purely on the basis of asking hundreds of qu...
The envelope is gone from next to my name! How am I supposed to check where those recent points came from? I don't remember the link to that page!
Edit: just to summarize the ways that the reputation graph does not make a suitable replacement for the /recent page:
The recent page has just th...
I didn't like clicking twice on my name in header to go to the profile with the new version. I think that small window should appear only when clicking the down arrow at the left of my name and the click on the name should lead you to your profile...
Noone agrees? :-(
