For the background, see: The Stack Overflow homepage is over-emphasizing bad questions (and a proposed solution) We've put together a first pass at a new homepage algorithm. You can check it out here: http://stackoverflow.com/?tab=recommended What it's doing is this: Take the 3000 most recen...

So this question got me thinking... We have several automatic processes in place for cleaning up cruft, deleting questions that are very unlikely to help anyone else. They're fairly conservative though; an awful lot of lousy questions hang around much longer, occasionally cropping up to annoy fo...

Lots of people are talking about this, so time to throw my hat in the ring. Note that this is just my idea and hasn't really been vetted by other Stack Exchange employees (probably some of them will chime in here). Background: of "rep addicts" and "help vampires" See this answer to "Why is Stac...

Be careful about assuming too much. You say that you know "surefire" that your university is spying on you, but your only evidence is that your mom is computer illiterate and you're "sure some of them know more than they should" about you (WARNING - this is a red flag for those of us not in your ...

Why do you guys keep ignoring the unwelcoming of these features on the other referenced tickets? The Developer Story Part 2: We didn't explain that very well Introducing the Developer Story It's like you are turning a blind eye on this.

So, I wan't the game to go to Level 2 when trump collides with the cactus. Why wont this work? function OnCollisionEnter2D(collision: Collision2D) { jump = false; if (collision.gameObject.name == "Cactus") { yes = true; Application.LoadLevel(2); } }

We've come to rename Markdown to Letdown in the C++ chat room because it lets you down so often. I've now just found a pattern. It seems markdown fails for multi-line messages. That is, this Letdown can't cope with multi-line comments. Let's see code? fails to display code marked as co...

We've come to rename Markdown to Letdown in the C++ chat room because it lets you down so often. I've now just found a pattern. It seems markdown fails for multi-line messages. That is, this Letdown can't cope with multi-line comments. Let's see code? fails to display code marked as co...

We have a question closure rate of ~30%. That's a significant burden on moderators and users who help triage the questions. While some questions can indeed be very difficult to triage, there are also many many incoming questions that are obviously bad just from a split-second glance. Stack Exc...