Quora has bots that do a lot of moderation, such as: auto-question-tagging, marking questions as "needs improvement," auto-question-merging, and auto-answer-collapsing. If bots like these were implemented on Stack Exchange, would they make communities better, or are they completely unnessecary?
On some entertainment sites (e.g. Anime.SE where I'm actively participating on), sometimes spoiler markdown is used to... hide spoilers.
While its usage is usually considerate, sometimes it's overused until there's nothing left shown normally on the post like this question.
(however, this meta ...
All I know is that they will play in Wenzhou (China) this week (see http://www.2700chess.com/). What's the time control and is it being broadcasted?
In a bit over 3 hours, the nomination phase of the moderator elections is scheduled to end. However, in order for the election to proceed, it is necessary to have at least one more candidate running than there are slots. This allows for there to be actual voting phases, so that the community can ...
I don't know the logic behind what goes up in the "Hot network questions" list, but I do know that it is often the same week-old questions, already with several answers and one accepted, and OP has long left the building. Even protected questions will show up.
As it works now, it mostly serves t...
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We've added a new table called PostsWithDeleted that includes metadata from all posts, including the deleted ones. If the post is deleted, we've nulled out all fields except:
ID
PostTypeId
ParentId
CreationDate
DeletionDate
Score
That's helpful for doing meaningful research that requires...
