The fact that you are asking me this question when I am LOGGED IN using my Google account is a very, very disturbing thing.
It suggests that your site and servers are a security nightmare, and that no one should entrust you with their personal information.
This is implemented -- if you favorite a question, you opt in to updates on that question and they will show in your /recent/ and light up the envelope, just as if you own the question.
Update: the feature has been pulled temporarily and is not currently available; see comments below.
The fact that you think the feature is underused isn't really a justification for removing it, especially as the post you linked to mentions, it was pulled temporarily while a more useful alternative could be determined.
Oooo do it like those guys on World's Dumbest. They robbed like $50,000 from a bank and the second guy confessed that he was hired by the main guy for $50. The commentary was "Hey, I'm cuttin' you in at point oh oh oh one percent."
Note that this question is a bit obsolete, because we now infer prettify language type based on the tags.
See more:
Changes to syntax highlighting
This is now implemented. In addition to tag inference (a recent change), you can manually specify the language as a hint to Google Code Prettify.
T...
This is now implemented. See:
http://stackoverflow.com/editing-help#syntax-highlighting
In addition to tag inference (a recent change), you can manually specify the language as a hint to Google Code Prettify.
The spec is:
<!-- language: lang-or-tag-here -->
code goes here
<!-- ...
I wasn't surprised to find that the most upvoted question on Stack Overflow had only 5,452 favorites.
"Big number," one might think. Think again. This number is fractional to the amount of views the question has gotten, which is 475,893.
That means that of the 475,893 unique users that visited ...
We're changing the way syntax highlighting is done on the Stack Exchange engine.
As you probably know, we use Google Code Prettify for automatic syntax highlighting.
Since the beginning, we've had kind of a boolean setting per website:
code blocks are always automatically highlighted (Stack O...
SE actually might not fit then entirely, because of minimum age. In terms of HS or University students it's a great fit. The Student Ambassador program is a good example.
obviously i'm not allowed to sell products or advertise in the talk, but i'm going to mention it because it's a strong supporter of my point that technology is vital for the way youth learn
I have a menu which I'd like to have automatically hide if it's inactive after a certain amount of time. This menu is composed of a hierarchy of UIViewControllers, which present various different views.
I'm thinking along the lines of running a timer, which invalidates and starts over whenever t...
Good. I wrote a log answer to a question that I misunderstood. So if I delete it now, but at some later point there'll come a question where I can re-use it, it'll still be there.
@Tim Finally we have this post, but no response yet. Maybe they're delaying it because of the recent changes and the soon to come new beta theme?
Yeah, I think they're a bit busy at the moment. I'm sure that Grace Note will make sure it gets taken care of for you guys in due time, though. :)
Then there's still the issue of the MathJax bug, hmm. Hopefully I can finish up some work to take another look at what might be an acceptable way to fix that.
Yeah, the issue arises from Stack Exchange-specific code, unfortunately. Basically it's trying to prevent the other functionality from interfering with MathJax, but it doesn't realise that it's interfering with other functionality because what it's dealing with is not MathJax.
Your site looks a bit different today. The design changes are a "sneak peek" at the new Stack Exchange Beta theme. Yes, we are getting rid of the 'Sketchy' look and replacing it with a more-polished and finished design for sites in beta.
We chose Judaism SE to premiere this new theme because we ...
The following question was closed as a duplicate by a mod:
How come the "Learning to write a compiler" question was deleted?
The following comments followed:
@casperOne -- How is this a duplicate at all?? – amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A 12 mins ago
@amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA Did ...
In this case, Jon Skeet is right.
There's also another way for a low-rep user to get two extra points, though: if you're at 1 point and someone downvotes you then takes it back, the system refunds you two points even though you didn't lose them in the first place.
I've demonstrated the latter c...
I was also mildly amused by the "maybe it was only a visualization bug on your side" comment. That, and the fact that the screenshot is hosted at a site called "imagebanana.com"
I like the UI of SO and the cleanness of it, but one thing that bugs me is the wording of the notification that something is a duplicate. I have had many questions closed because they are duplicates, but often, they aren't a true duplicate or an exact duplicate.
I'm not complaining about the loo...
@TimStone Do you think that my bug-report from this morning does not make sense? I may have obscured my point too much in the process of trying to be funny.
I was thinking of just removing all the fluff and adding the clarifications from the comments into the post, which would probably be more useful.
@TimStone (this of course is no longer the case, but was true at the time that suggested edit was approved)
@jadarnel27 I think it's clear enough, I hadn't given much thought to the fact that up votes you cast don't show up anywhere, so I'm not sure how I feel about the question down votes appearing.
We now automatically remove salutations from posts as they are entered.
I got really tired of performing this edit over and over, so anything matching the form of …
^ # begins at start of body
\s* # possible spaces
(
hii?(?![a-z])| # any of these greeting...
While I can configure the preferences like (for instance)
disable random showing of posts to review
sort by newest first
(java tag)
on opening the review page(s), those preferences are lost on re-opening (but a bit sporadic, occasionally not - didn't find anything obvious when or not it is h...
How do the /review pages (for example, http://stackoverflow.com/review) work?
What actually happens when you click "flag for removal"?
Is there a limit to the number of questions that can be reviewed?
Related: How to review? Can we agree on a review 'policy'?
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I had just deleted this answer.
So my reputation page now reflects that.
But
For some reason the row that tells me of the deletion does not have a link to my deleted answer.
Can we please make it so that text is linkified as well?
All sounds nice, but you're still missing a point that I think should be addressed. Currently, when things get deleted, they just disappear from your history. That's not very helpful, especially concerning reputation. When my reputation randomly drops by 40, it would be nice to be able to see tha...
The fact that you are asking me this question when I am LOGGED IN using my Google account is a very, very disturbing thing.
It suggests that your site and servers are a security nightmare, and that no one should entrust you with their personal information.
This is implemented -- if you favorite a question, you opt in to updates on that question and they will show in your /recent/ and light up the envelope, just as if you own the question.
Update: the feature has been pulled temporarily and is not currently available; see comments below.
I wasn't surprised to find that the most upvoted question on Stack Overflow had only 5,452 favorites.
"Big number," one might think. Think again. This number is fractional to the amount of views the question has gotten, which is 475,893.
That means that of the 475,893 unique users that visited ...
The following question was closed as a duplicate by a mod:
How come the "Learning to write a compiler" question was deleted?
The following comments followed:
@casperOne -- How is this a duplicate at all?? – amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A 12 mins ago
@amanaPlanaCAnalPAnaMA Did ...
In this case, Jon Skeet is right.
There's also another way for a low-rep user to get two extra points, though: if you're at 1 point and someone downvotes you then takes it back, the system refunds you two points even though you didn't lose them in the first place.
I've demonstrated the latter c...
While I can configure the preferences like (for instance)
disable random showing of posts to review
sort by newest first
(java tag)
on opening the review page(s), those preferences are lost on re-opening (but a bit sporadic, occasionally not - didn't find anything obvious when or not it is h...
How do the /review pages (for example, http://stackoverflow.com/review) work?
What actually happens when you click "flag for removal"?
Is there a limit to the number of questions that can be reviewed?
Related: How to review? Can we agree on a review 'policy'?
Return to FAQ index
