Just need a private list that is invisible to others. — Youjun Hu 43 secs ago

@JamesT some users posted here because they can't post on Stack Overflow (e.g. question banned) — Meta Andrew T. 27 secs ago

@RyanM There has recently been a woke attack on fatherhood. The apparent question is not one of gender but one of the role of the family in society. Dad is a title only used by family members ; it is a title, and use of titles is not only common but a hard rule for formal (as different to informal) speech in some languages, e.g., Slavic languages. Proper speech is not that uncommon, for example, one says 'Your Majesty' to King Charles III, not 'he.' Subsequently, one could use "sire" when directly addressing the King as a sign of fealty, not sex. Freud "sometimes a cigar is only a cigar." — Carl 5 secs ago

@Andreasdetestscensorship I understand. Freedom of speech includes the freedom from speaking at all. My point was that there is no science that is not open to testing, indeed, the ideas which are untestable, e.g., some put 'string theory' in that category, are questionably science at all. Climate change is questionable. In fact, heat kills fewer people than cold, warm oceans make rain AND increase C02, and the Sahara is desert because of decreased rainfall not increased CO2, and so forth. Refusing to discuss it does not establish climate change as anything other than misinformation . — Carl 13 secs ago

the user seems to be having difficulties using the SE network sites. This question had been asked on Stack Overflow in Portuguese but in English. pt.stackoverflow.com/q/583050/137387 — Augusto Vasques 15 secs ago

Could you clarify which particular family members use the title "Dad"? Are they perhaps of a particular gender? May I assume that the cherry-picking of that one sentence to respond to means that you agree with the rest of my point regarding using gendered pronouns to refer to someone in their presence? — Ryan M 18 secs ago

@Andreasdetestscensorship The is little to no evidence in favor of a few parts per million increase in CO2 causing anything, both Earth's temperature and CO2 levels are at very low levels in the paleontological record. I included a chart to that effect, and a reference to climate misinformation. It goes over some of these things. — Carl 56 secs ago

Could you clarify which particular family members use the title "Dad"? Are they perhaps of a particular gender (or at least not of another particular gender)? May I assume that the cherry-picking of that one sentence to respond to means that you agree with the rest of my point regarding using gendered pronouns to refer to someone in their presence? — Ryan M 51 secs ago

@RyanM "Isn't that just what John just said." is more polite than "Isn't that what he just said?" or "Isn't that what 'shorty' just said" or any other alternative. Some monolingual Anglophones have not had that pointed out to them. Keep it in mind if you meet people who speak other languages. In some cultures keeping your hands in your pockets when you talk to someone else would be an insult. Staying out of trouble is not always obvious. — Carl 56 secs ago

@RyanM "Could you clarify which particular family members are addressed by the title "Dad"?" It is really a stretch to convert a family title into a sexist insult. I do not control your speech, but that is not the same thing as motivating my speech. No, I cannot parse your ideas for you using your rules, you would first have to explain yourself a lot better than you have so far. — Carl 1 min ago

@Andreasdetestscensorship My chemistry is advanced enough that I was given 13.5 credit hours in chemistry when I entered university, and I didn't even ask. You might make a more credible argument if you presented what statement you are having problems with. — Carl 48 secs ago

"It is really a stretch to convert a family title into a sexist insult." I'm confused as to who you think is trying to do that. I certainly am not saying that it is. "Gendered" does not mean "sexist", if that's your confusion. — Ryan M 1 min ago

@MartijnPieters "...just a statistical language model and has no actual expertise, whatsoever, in technical subjects..." Just last week I tried it again and it helped me. I asked it to fit a circle to a 2D cloud of points in Python using common libraries et voila the answer was right. Of course I checked it to be sure. I also liked the layout of the answer, well explained with nice code examples. All parentheses were balanced. My conclusion is that even though statistics may not include actual expertise it can come pretty close sometimes. — Trilarion 35 secs ago

And the problem still persists, after 6 years ... — Martin R 37 secs ago

@Rob I will keep doing it. You keep choosing wrong duplicates and this hurts the site. No idea how the rest of the comment is relevant, you clearly said this is duplicate, and no, it is not. — Shadow The Spring Wizard 6 secs ago

This many levels of nested lists make for a curious reading experience on a small-screen device :) (Screenshot taken on an iPhone SE 2) — The Amplitwist 19 secs ago

@RyanM My apologies. Gender in the sense you are using the word is both historically inconsistent, and currently fluid that if you want me to use that word today, I would request that you define what you mean by it. Announcing one's sexual fantasies is not polite in my book. You say gendered does not mean sexist, if so, what is gendered? I do not want to be immersed in sexual fantasies as a constant barrage, and I see too much of that for my tastes. Comments are probably not a good place for extended discussion. — Carl 41 secs ago

How can you "attempt to vote" but not actually vote? Either you click the button or you don't... — Cole 13 secs ago

@Cole from my understanding, they did click the vote button but got rejected due to not having enough reputation (15 rep to upvote, 125 rep to downvote) — Meta Andrew T. 27 secs ago

I'm afraid you've posted this in the wrong place. This is Meta.SE, for questions about the Stack Exchange network itself; you're looking for Stack Overflow. — F1Krazy 30 secs ago

@MetaAndrewT. If that — Cole 47 secs ago

Even without the dodgy offset on the y-axis, it looks like a crash (down 50%). (More than 60% down from the COVID-19 peak.) — This_is_NOT_a_forum 15 secs ago

@Cole it's mentioned in "What's next", which I think explained about the pain point about voting overall. — Meta Andrew T. 38 secs ago

Notice for downvoters: if you don't understand or even hate localization related issues, please just add this tag to ignore list. Thank you. — αλεχολυτ 46 secs ago

Please delete this and ask on the Ask Ubuntu Meta site instead. This is about the scope of a specific site, so the people who can answer it will be the Meta users of that site. — terdon 17 secs ago

I dint know each site had its own meta. I will ask it on the ubuntu meta. what is this meta site used for. — aqwertya 56 secs ago

Thanks for posting on the AU meta :). Could you please delete this one though so we don't have the same question in two places? — terdon 24 secs ago

@terdon ok i will delete it — aqwertya just now

No idea what is "my tags". The link you posted is to the tags page, nothing special there. Please clarify what you mean, and post screenshot of the problem. — Shadow The Spring Wizard 50 secs ago

@ShadowTheSpringWizard That's a link to a filter, which only works for the person who made it. "My tags" is an option for filters which uses watched tags. — Laurel 30 secs ago

@ShadowTheSpringWizard, yes, the link only works if you have your list of watched tags on the site. It is there to show what it refers to in general, not the content of my (Richard's) followed tags. — Richard Hardy 31 secs ago

Good points, and I'm 100% sure they will change the logo to something ugly in a blink of an eye, if they'll find something they think is considered modern and their "research" will show it will attract more visitors. — Shadow The Spring Wizard 18 secs ago

I see. Think it's limited to 25 tags to prevent overloading the server, however try this link, does it work and showing all your tags? — Shadow The Spring Wizard 47 secs ago

This one might have the answer. — Shadow The Spring Wizard 6 secs ago

@ShadowTheSpringWizard, yes, the first link works. It delivers questions and answers separately, so I get about twice as many results as I used to, but it is still a pretty good solution. — Richard Hardy 54 secs ago

@RichardHardy you can add is:q to the search box, or click this updated link, to see only questions. That's using the ordinary search mechanism, which isn't limited. — Shadow The Spring Wizard 19 secs ago

@This_is_NOT_a_forum The dodgy offset is what the graph output of SEDE does automatically. One needs to carefully check the values each time. The interesting question is how the next months will develop. At some point a new floor should form or maybe even a bounce back. — Trilarion 27 secs ago

"I prefer it if the owners or administrators delete the questions from the website, despite the team stating this would cause the website's integrity to be reduced." So you've already been informed that we do not allow users to delete all their questions. Why do you think you should be granted an exemption from that rule? — F1Krazy just now

You should probably use some ML to create the title. This is what ChatGPT-4 created for me when asked to: "Seeking feedback on AI Title Suggestion Experiment for Stack Exchange" — Suma 25 secs ago

Hi LeonardReyes, welcome to the Stack Exchange Network Meta site! I'm not sure which search brought you here but the problem you describe will not be answered on this specific site. To get an expert's answer for the topic of your question you'll have to find and then re-post on the proper site. Check How do I ask a good question and What is on topic on the target site to make sure your post is in good shape. Your question is definitely off-topic on Meta and is better deleted here. — Spevacus 33 secs ago

You're asking on the wrong site. You need Stack Overflow's Meta — Robert Longson 9 secs ago

Maybe add a sixth core question to assess: "Does the community want this?" — MMM 21 secs ago

@wizzwizz4 my example was meant to explain that, if I said I identify as Australian, even though I have no relationship whatsoever with the country, neither directly nor indirectly, based on that rule, whoever denies that identity must somehow be punished. That has nothing to do with dehumanization. I am not talking about denying feelings, I am talking about denying facts with feelings. It's pretty hard for someone to deny that I feel Australian (whatever that may be), but anyone can prove that I am not Australian. I just think it´s important to distinguish both. Both are identities. — Hart Radev 21 secs ago

This will improve the number of useful questions and more useful things will be on the website. Why can't this be agreed upon? — Just Learning 34 secs ago

@starball I think dsz's main point is that "harm" is ill-defined. Of course words cause harm and can be transmitted over TCP/IP. But is there an alternative definition of harm between "murderous and injurious behaviors" and "anything that challenges a person's self-perception of their identity"? — Josiah Yoder 10 secs ago

It seems that the "business horoscope" TKI conflict style assessment can be taken for free here. (I just took it myself.) — Henke just now

It seems that the "business horoscope" TKI conflict style assessment can be taken for free here. (I just took it myself.) — Henke 1 min ago

@HartRadev I don't know how I'd go about proving you weren't Australian. Regardless: as you said, both are part of an identity. I'm not proposing a rule "you must conflate different aspects of someone's identity": just "don't deny people's expressed identities". So if someone says "I'm French but I feel Australian", don't say "no, you feel French, because you're French". (And the CoC doesn't mandate punishment: there's stuff in there about asking good questions, and there's no formal punishment (outside downvotes and the resulting automated question ban) if you ask rubbish questions.) — wizzwizz4 29 secs ago

Why do you think you need to reset your password every single time you log in? — Kevin B 17 secs ago

Most likely because they spammed many different sites, and instead of going through and destroying the account for spam on each site, they opted to suspend network-wide to stop them from spamming other sites they haven't gotten to yet. — Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog just now

If you have cross-site cookies blocked then you need to sign in again for each site that it not under the stackexchange.com domain [that will be stackoverflow & superuser, according to your profile]. You do not need separate credentials, just [yet another] sign in. — Tetsujin 51 secs ago

I'm not sure who "we" is in your question. Moderators can suspend users only for a year. So this is CM territory and there is nothing to be discussed publicly. Raise the issue in the TL or on the mod team as there might be reasons for this length that should remain private. — rene 41 secs ago

I am having to reset my password every time I log in, after clearing my cache and cookies. — Kyle 1 min ago

Merging users into a main user apparently helps to keep track of our known miscreants. — Mast 22 secs ago

I use a userscript to make the voting arrows sticky for this exact reason! Posts don't have to be that long to push the vote buttons out of view... I would be super interested to see what effect this would have on voting if it was tested on the real site. — zcoop98 30 secs ago

That could cause you to login every time, but not to reset it every time. What is the message you get when trying to log in with your current password, without resetting it? — Mast 50 secs ago

I must admit, considering how easy it is to recreate an account it does feel pointless at times to do it. — Mast 57 secs ago

Most of them don't come back though (at least not identifiable as the same person), so basically it's just hoping they don't. Once you get the hang of it, destroying obvious spammers becomes routine. — Mast 49 secs ago

Fellow moderators, if you don't want to see such type of Q here on MSE, just delete them. No reason to downvote, really. — αλεχολυτ 10 secs ago

The public answer is that it feeds their IP to SpamRam. The details of that are not shared (the team doesn't want to give the spammers any ideas, naturally), but it helps keep at least some spam out of the door. Just because they recreated their account, doesn't mean they can use it to post more spam (unless you count account profile spam, which is really hard to stop). But I'd like to see a more thorough answer on that if possible. — Mast 5 secs ago

Another lesser option is to prevent closing the modal on anything except for clicking the "X" in the top right. It looks like a bootstrap modal and I think there is a setting for that. — Cave Johnson 22 secs ago

You don't have to reset your password. You choose to do it, and only you know why. — Shadow The Spring Wizard 47 secs ago

Deleting account removes the user from the users page. Having spammers there is just noise, and some also have spammy names, or offensive. — Shadow The Spring Wizard 14 secs ago

If this is a question for Staff, perhaps it would help to tag this with support instead of discussion? — Mast 38 secs ago

Does this answer your question? Why not perma-ban instead of suspend an account for 275 years? — terdon 41 secs ago

@ShadowTheSpringWizard Oh, sometimes it gets really old really fast. Last year we had a wave where I had to remove over 1k of accounts that looked something like this. Some of the names were quite, ehm, adult, in nature. But the Team doesn't really care about those unless it gets extreme like back then. — Mast 19 secs ago

Suspending an account involves multiple steps, just nuking the account is one / two clicks. — rene 33 secs ago

Have you read the guide? — Robert Longson 27 secs ago

It says my password is wrong. So my only choice is to reset it. Why in the world was this question closed ??? — Kyle 18 secs ago

Or, instead of wasting money and compute power on "AI", we could just have users upload the raw text or have their question closed for lacking detail. — van dench 39 secs ago

Because it's unclear. Noone else is being forced to change their password every time, so the question, in it's current state, isn't really presenting anything we can work with. Some of your clarifying comments, such as the last one, are useful information, but they need to be edited into your question. However, even with those changes, it seems extremely unlikely that the system is somehow changing your password again after you change it. — Kevin B 9 secs ago

I just edited the title, to clarify the question. --- How can I input the password wrong when I'm cutting and pasting it from a file? I don't have this problem anywhere else. — Kyle just now

@vandench: That's always an option, but why not use computing power for the benfit of the user? And AI backed OCR is not that computational expensive IIRC. Imagine you can just take a screenshot of an error message and don't have to type it manually (not all GUIs allow copying the text information, it even becomes cumbersome on more and more websites) — hakre 27 secs ago

I just edited the title, to clarify the question. --- How can I input the password wrong when I'm cutting and pasting it from a file? I don't have this problem anywhere else. — Kyle 1 min ago

@PeterD Welcome to Meta SE. FYI, I encountered the same basic issue just over 4 years ago. I posted about it in the Math SE meta site at Display issue with first 2 equations in an answer, although they appear fine in Edit mode, with the issue causing this (and the solution) also stated in my answer below. — John Omielan 37 secs ago

I flagged the comments above that say I didn't try my current password as being ABUSIVE. Have a nice day. — Kyle 44 secs ago

It isn’t that simple, though. SE doesn’t host the images - Imgur does. So SE would be to download each image from them to do the OCR, and bandwidth adds up fast. — cocomac 50 secs ago

@MadScientist - Well said. — Pᴀᴜʟsᴛᴇʀ2 34 secs ago

Voiceover does some sort of image to text (i.e., speech) interpretation and wow is that the worst thing I've ever heard. There was an image with a yellow quote and it described it as a "sand bar" or something. (It also read out the text which I guess means it did what it needed to.) Is there image AI out there that's even worth it? — Laurel 35 secs ago

Is it within the realm of possibility that you're accidentally copying in invisible whitespace characters when you go to copy the password into the change/ login prompt? I definitely understand why this would be excruciatingly frustrating, but this doesn't appear to be something that's affecting a bunch of users, and it would be exceptionally odd for such a login bug to affect exclusively you and you alone... maybe just double check your method for pasting the password in? And maybe take this as a nudge towards using a password manager that has convenient features like typing in for you? — zcoop98 1 min ago

Put more plainly, I think there's an argument to be made that it would be another link in the chain that could introduce errors that just doesn't need to be there when asking users to do it themselves is so much simpler. — zcoop98 9 secs ago

I think this just comes down to simplicity and accuracy; the simplest solution to "type out your code" is really just to dump the request on users, where it belongs in the first place. We also run into the problem of OCR accuracy, and even if it's really, really good (and I do imagine there's some excellent stuff out there, the fact that e.g. my iphone camera can interpret logo letters into text makes me reasonably confident OCR of IDE screencaps would be pretty accurate), if it's not perfect, then there's always going to be a chance that the OP's error wasn't faithfully translated. — zcoop98 1 min ago

I get better accuracy in OCR with AI than without. Not sure where you exactly locate the source of error, but I've too little knowledge in OCR technically, so I would not even able to discuss it. All I can say is it works and it is also accurate. — hakre 49 secs ago

No, it's not possible. But thanks. — Kyle 25 secs ago

So when somebody runs into a bug they get 4 down votes for asking about it. — Kyle 23 secs ago

@Mast It just says I've entered the wrong password. I reset it, and I'm fine. Until two days later when I go to log in again. My new password is wrong again. And again. — Kyle 47 secs ago

I've used blog-ish sites that had this. The only downside on Stack Overflow is that it'd make big horizontal gaps on the page. zcoop98's approach helps with that, but then it's much harder to not-look at the post score. — wizzwizz4 just now