why questions like this and this that are simple overflow questions gets that much vote ups? this question are so specific in the title no one ever in the future would find them as his answer if he have similar problem.
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Basically because the question is "easy" a lot of people can see whether it's a good question or not and vote accordingly. Harder, more obscure questions which may be "better" questions will gain fewer votes because fewer people under...
The way how meta participation is calculated is explained here:
Users most active on this site in the last 60 days (combined number of posts, votes, comments and edits).
While above has a definite benefit of being simple, it looks way too simple. Suggest to change it to use total score of t...
When we flag some content, and the content gets removed, does it leave a trail in the user's history that their content was deleted?
I noticed a lot if noisy comments today while I was looking for questions to answer, so I went through all the newest posts in the tag and flagged noisy comments,...
