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We have a process for how sites go about graduating or sticking around in Beta, but as noted in the comments there, Code Golf is one of two sites that we do not have periodic "Site Evaluations" where we compare questions against the rest of ...
I’m Grace Note, a Community Manager at Stack Exchange. Normally for most sites we run a community site evaluation, as explained in this Meta Stack Overflow post under Public Beta sites. However, these reviews involve comparing our site content against searches on the internet for competing answer...
@Shog9 That too... but is it really worth it? The privs rep level changes... for a site like that, might make the quality worse (less closers & deleters).
@hichris123 Is community growth worth it? Hey, I live in a shack up in the hills, with dogs to guard against neighbors getting too close. But some folks want big cities.
@Shog9 Hmm... but when should a community become a city? Really, it seems the tradeoff is less users available to moderate... so when does a community become ready to become a city?
@hichris123 when the core community is strong enough to support a large, steady influx of new users, moderating as needed and adopting those willing into the core.
@Shog9 Was there recently a change to VLQ flags? I'm pretty sure they're marked as helpful for me, even though they were edited (and thus should be disputed).
This question attempts to collect the few pearls among the dozens of bad C++ books that are published every year.
Unlike many other programming languages, which are often picked up on the go from tutorials found on the Internet, few are able to quickly pick up C++ without studying a well-written...
"This question's answer is a collaborative effort: if you see something that can be improved, just edit to improve it! No additional answers can be added here"
I've adjusted the wording slightly.
This is something the SO mods and I are experimenting a bit with right now. There are a small handful of questions that are not exactly appropriate for Stack Overflow, are popular and have useful answers where the primary value arises from the community's reg...
One of the newer features we have in our toolbelt is the ability to lock questions in a sort of wiki state, where no new answers can be added, but existing answers can be improved. You'll see its usage most recently here:
Best C/C++ Network Library?
This question has a few things that keep...
Makes you pass a numeric value, so you can't just willy nilly add your own text. It has to be something pre-defined. But I don't know what all messages there are or if it will let you choose from anything.
'Hello yourname, welcome to stackoverflow. You should choose a more friendly name'.replace('yourname', 'damn u')
'Hello damn u, welcome to stackoverflow. You should choose a more friendly name'
^ when I first saw this it set off every warning bell
At some point, while reading random threads in meta, I came across a link to some great article about the tendency of certain types of online communities to generate into noise. That's all I really remember about it, that and that the author of the article really liked twitter. Does anybody have any idea what I'm talking about?
At some point = like 2 weeks ago, and I forgot to bookmark it.
@Helios In some ways cough*profilepageredesign*cough, but I'm actually just interested in finding the article because it's a great one to file away for reference in general.
s/generate/degenerate
I keep thinking @Shog9 posted it in a comment somewhere.
I always assumed she keeps crashing on every obstacle around because she actually don't see well with her left eye and such. basically she is just using one eye all the time, and we know that you can't judge distances with only one eye.
at the moment I cannot fin out what is wrong. I keep getting the same error message for the following code:
Button Trans1 = (Button)findViewById(R.id.button1);
Trans1.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener(){
public void onClick(View view) {
try {
String tra...
It happens rarely, but sometimes new information comes to light on posts I have voted on that make me want to change my vote - for example, a comment may provide new information, or may bring up a different perspective I hadn't considered.
Currently, I can not change my vote after a certain peri...
@Bart Yeah - just when I misclicked one before as the wrong question - my flag got wrongly accepted, and once that had happened, had to mod-flag it to get it removed. (I'm not even sure it has been now...)
Which any 1 rep user can have. Access is no problem. You just can't "speak"
The link rene gave you applies. The user just requested access to observe. Not to write as far as I can tell.
They are indeed currently banned from asking questions now. The item that they were contacted about on Feb. 14 did not result in a suspension, and was merely a warning. The two deleted and heavily downvoted questions, in addition to the third visible downvoted question, were enough to put them over the question ban threshold yesterday. — Brad Larson ♦7 mins ago
Ugh, will someone with >2k rep force through a tiny edit for us? The & in this post needs wrapping in code tags to be visible, but it's such a concise answer, I don't want to touch anything else. stackoverflow.com/posts/22562944/edit
@Bart system does not allow you to send the request for write access or any thing in Gallery rooms who have reputation below 20, but how she managed to send that and I see many users who did same and even noticed that system does not allow to do same with mostly users who have below 20 reputation. I agree that they can not write message but how system is behaving strange
@AmalMurali Even better: vote as duplicate AND repost a copy of the duplicate accepted answer. Seen that, and the eyes still burn for all the thinner I had to use.