Raise the reputation required to close, raise the number of votes needed to close, allow "anti-close" votes to keep questions OPEN, do not let someone answer AND at the same time vote to close (or at least force the answer to be community wiki so they can't whore points by reducing answer competi...

Well, first of all these hacks arn't just from any 'ol random programmer. This one from quirksmode, for instance, is from a well respected source and, as far as I can tell, widely used (It's used here for the image upload dialog). Another example is this one created for the ajax upload script. Ig...

Implemented in January 2010, you can use @name syntax anywhere in your comment to reply to a specific user. This will notify that user in their recent replies. There are a few rules to follow for it to work: Notifications apply to the author, commenters, and editors of the question or answer ...

The current list of integrated (we call this onebox, or oneboxing, ala search engines) sites is: Stack Exchange Questions Stack Exchange Answers Stack Exchange Users Stack Exchange Chat Messages Stack Exchange Chat Rooms (though not really pretty yet) Amazon Twitter Wikipedia XKCD YouTube Githu...

in the case of SO I think that they are smarter, more methodological, more prepared for the upgrade. Thank you for your confidence in our abilities, but you've made fourthree mistakes!

Voting is the currency of our site. Each day, we get 30 votes to spend. It is important that users (myself included!) try and use up these votes each day. Without votes, we don't have reputation. Without reputation, the community cannot police itself. See the FAQ for information on the reput...

When you use an answer link the answer in question is highlighted briefly when you visit the link. The highlighting fades to white for the current sites. For example, try this link: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/7931/the-official-faq-for-stack-overflow-server-fault-and-super-user/7935#7...

WebApplications: The Community Driven Web Manual

Hi guys, The wait is over! As you can see the new design has been applied and nothingtoinstall.com is live. I'd like to address a few issues. captcha image There were a few suggestions from the Captcha thread. It seems most people like the robot theme. Due to copyright issues, I can't use t...

The new design is great, but the font is really killing me. Here's why: Uneven kerning and spacing Have a look at this title. The space between n and e in uneven, r and n in kerning, a and c in spacing are all wrong! There are a lot of other examples, but a font like this just isn't conducive ...

I have an easy idea for a fix. Disable the option to mark questions community wiki by the question author. (allow them to become CW naturally if thats what GxD wants, or allow moderators to) Look at this list for example: Last 100 questions that were wiki from get go. I'm counting may 1/10...

I was initially drawn to Ubuntu, simply due to the fact that you could completely customize your computer to how you would like to use it. I was wondering how everyone's desktops look, and what mods they use to get it to look the way it does. I believe this leads you to be introduced a new myr...

Take Web Apps, which will have its progress "evaluated" in a mere 5 days. Reputation Users Notes ───────────────────────────────────────────────────── Diamonds 9 with at least 102 rep 3,000+ 0 non diamonds - closest at 2,826 2,000+ 3 non diamonds 1,000+ (17)...

Is it right for moderators to answer a question and locking other answers to the same question? I think this act is immoral and a sign that the moderator should have their moderator status revoked. Clarification: By locked I mean locked and not closed. Example: Questions on meta.stackoverflow....