Did something change in the reputation system recently on Meta? I had some 41k last week, and am now down around 37k. Not a big deal, but I'm very curious what might have changed.
Maybe the 99% decided to redistribute 1% of the top 1%'s rep...
Well meta.stackoverflow.com/reputation seems to be in order, so it must be a rep recalc done recently, and the lost rep was probably from a bunch of deleted questions over the years.
The system should search posts for the word "please" in proximity to the phrase "don't close" or "do not close", and if found together disable the close link for the following reasons:
They asked nicely
They knew enough about the system to understand that posts can be closed, and thus are exper...
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Pointing out that thread's popularity is a direct result of programming community interest in said subject, and that someone likely stands to become rich and/or famous by solving the problem none of the answers, save my own, came even close to resolving.
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Hello, badges are extremely discriminated in DataExplorer, there's no info what category (bronze, silver or gold) the particular badge has. Please upvote the feature request to add the badge types table to data explorer: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/148147/…
:o How did you know!? But no, I've been working on this for a while. I thought the bad image quality in the PDF was due to my workaround cutting-corners graphics skills that I utilized, but when I redid the graphics and saved again, it looks a little better but it still destroys them. -.-
Heh, I just got scheduled to work at some place that Google Maps doesn't understand...
