According to Wikipedia: Stack Overflow is a website part of the Stack Exchange network featuring questions and answers on a wide range of topics in computer programming. Of course, you really can't trust anything on Wikipedia - they let anyone edit that stuff! I suspect it's just another shady ...
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Tag merge request: [vms] and [openvms]
Can we merge the SO tags vms and openvms? They refer to the same thing, but both have such low activity that it'll be hard to merge them through the normal tag synonym process. vms has more ...
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Ask to specific user in stackoverflow? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Any way to send a personal message to another user?
How do I contact other users?
Can we ask or send link to specific person in stackoverflow?
Or can we send internal ...
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What do the reputation values for unaccept and accept mean?
How do unaccept and accept work? I see different reputation values:
Why do they differ?
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How should I treat a question which the asker just should have tried?
Sometimes I encounter questions on Stack Overflow where it appears that the asker should have just tried the code for themselves. Fer example, I've seen questions such as (in its simplest form):
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Merge tags [c2dm] and [android-c2dm]
Please merge c2dm with android-c2dm as they're both the same. If possible, please make android-c2dm the new master.
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Merge tags [asynctask] and [android-asynctask]
Please merge asynctask with android-asynctask -- they both refer to the same concept.
Ideally it would be nice if android-asynctask came out as the master just because it's aptly named but asynctask ...
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Will Meta rep be joined with SO rep?
I'm happy that finally SO will get its own Meta, and it will make quite a few things a lot easier. One thing that I'm wondering about is reputation. Specifically, will my reputation from Meta get ...
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user posting the question and then commenting an answer with another username
Strange thing occurred to me right now, please have a look at this question:
flash components and resizing
A user posted a comment after my answer. By his comment it looks like he is the author of ...
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Migrate to codereview as a voting option [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Option to move post from Stackoverflow to codereview.stackexchange
Suggest move to Code Review?
We're getting a few questions in SO that would be better suited to ...
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Reputation loss
In my SO account I had 1144 reputation yesterday But when I check today it was 1092 so what was the reason for that? (I have checked there was no unaccepted and down votes) Is it bug? I lost 22 ...
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Tag synonym request: [tag:django-widget] -> [tag:django-widgets]
django-widgets (60 questions) and django-widget (3 questions) are for the same topic.
I suggest that django-widget be made a synonym of django-widgets.
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Should downvotes include explanations? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Encouraging people to explain down-votes
Right now, I'm experiencing a question ban on stack over flow. I'm assuming the attitude isn't to ban me from the site, but to ...
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What's wrong with this stackoverflow question?
Here's my question: How to create a post request using C++ and sockets?
It's being downvoted, but I don't know why. I thought I was asking a really straight forward question that does belong on ...
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Lines of code in Stack Overflow [closed]
Does anyone know, or could estimate, how many lines of code there are in Stack Overflow's website?
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Burninate and blacklist the [suffix] tag on Stackoverflow
I am very sure this is the first time I ask for the burnination (is that the noun?) of anything, and it's my first time on meta, but I think I'd like to suggest that suffix be burninated and ...
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Can we now burninate the homework tag and discourage its use?
I present to you the following indisputable (depending on your frame of reference) facts:
homework is a meta-tag. It describes the status from which the question is being asked, not the content of ...
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Should questions where a problem arose from a typo be closed?
Should questions where a problem arose from a typo be closed?
Here is a recent example:
Google Analytics Javacript event tracker code not tracking events
The problem was a misspelled _gaq (written ...
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Where to ask a question regarding programming from a business perspective?
I asked a question on SO about what I need to do to prepare to freelance/consult. It was closed by the mod's, but I'm not sure where I should go to ask this type of question?
It is programming ...
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u-boot and uboot should be synonyms
I was just reviewing my old question How does the bootloader pick up the command after a "restarting system with command"? and I noticed that my tag u-boot was edited to uboot.
It seems ...
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It's time to clean up the [sun] tag
sun has about 180 questions.
Of these, about 100 are also tagged java. Questions with both tags are almost always about the JDK, with a handful discussing certification (usually in a way that should ...
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Does stackoverflow have an API? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Does StackOverflow provide a public API for querying?
Does stackoverflow have a public API? Can you access the stack overflow data, questions and answers through an API. ...
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Combine all [ul], [ol], and [li] into a single tag
I don't see why these are all split up. Separately, they don't really make any difference. In general, we're talking about "HTML Lists" and not an ordered or unordered list specifically. Whether or ...
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Why are SO users became so lazy asking, answering and even writing full discriptive questions? [closed]
Question on Header <- Lazy user;
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Flag / close option “what have you tried?” / “plz send me teh codes” questions?
Regarding this question
What is the correct action to take when you encounter one of the questions that sound like the OP has some genuine problem but does not really tell enough of it to get any ...
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Proposed tag synonym: make [perl-hash] a synonym of [perl-data-structures]
perl-hash has 6 questions. It's not really a good tag, since a vast majority of the Perl hash questions are instead under perl-data-structures (100+ questions).
Therefore, I proposed to make ...
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What functions or features do you think should be necessary to add when you are using Stackoverflow? [closed]
I am trying to build a visualization interface for stack overflow website. And I would like to know more about the users' need or intent. What do you think is important while you exploring in Stack ...
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Did Stack Overflow delete my history?
Yesterday I received a badge on Stack Overflow erroneously. I posted a question on Meta to see if that was a bug (using the bug tag), yet today there is no record that I ever received the badge or ...
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MVVM tag language hint seems off
Been wondering about this for a while now, the mvvm tag seems to have an XML-language-hint.
Here is an example question which has both C# and XAML code, as one can see the C# is also in XML ...
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Exploit on Stackoverflow [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
AVG 10 free detects “Input validation exploit”
There seems to be an exploit on the Stackoverflow. Is this real?
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Syntax highlighting: javascript / node.js
A question which is not tagged with javascript but node.js should use JavaScript syntax highlighting by default.
Currently this is apparently not the case: Node.js: Require a client certificate for a ...
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Microsoft Project related tag maintenance
In order to ensure all Microsoft Project-related tags are consistently named, please could the following changes be made:
project-server (52 questions) rename to ms-project-server
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Why was this vb6 migration question closed?
I'm sorry but... what the hell?
This question was recently closed as not constructive:
Migrating vb6 to .net. I don't understand why.
How is that not constructive? I get the feeling that the ...
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Tag merge request: [prism] and [compositewpf]
The tags prism and compositewpf refer to the same thing.
The description for compositewpf says:
Composite WPF often refers to the Prism framework which is a set of guidance from Microsoft for ...
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Is it OK to leave “What have you tried?” comments?
Some questions boil down to "how can/do I do X?" Here's an example.
Sometimes, people leave comments under such questions that ask "what have you tried?" Is it OK to leave comments like that? Should ...
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Anyone with a “visited: 1000 days, 1000 consecutive” in his/her profile? [closed]
Back in May, 27th 2009, the Stack Overflow team introduced a little counter to monitor the consecutive days you visited the site.
And 30 days later (June 26th 2009), the first "Enthusiast" badges were ...
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Can we permanently ban the ambiguous [vb] tag?
For those that don't know, a brief history lesson... There are two distinct variants* of Visual Basic:
The old COM-based platform, which was last released under the name VB 6 back in 1998.
The newer ...
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Automatically accept answer based on the highest percentage and dynamic reputation in real time?
Just suggesting,
Would it be better if SO use Percentage rather than vote count for the Answer?
Example: 80 agree and 20 disagree than the percentage of the answer will be 80%.
The community would ...
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discussion: accept rate: zero habit of not answering? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Are people less tolerant of questions from users with a low accept rate?
Hy,
I always wondered if there is some "habit" around stackoverflow of not answering if somebody ...
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account was working fine but suddenly it freezes [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Getting “Sorry, we are no longer accepting questions from this account” after 20 months and 900 reputation
What did I do wrong? I have no negative voting. My ...
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Is it just me or is SO with all its good intention just contributing to all the crap the internet is gathering? [closed]
Seriously, I can’t ask Google an IT question anymore without SO being the first five pages of answers, and all I get is people asking the same questions in a different ways with a bunch of answers ...
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Is Google taking over the Stack Overflow concept? Using their new Google science? [closed]
Because Stack Overflow is very strict in there rules and other locking system.
Is Google not now making a clone concept of Stack Overflow? Can we not already have it? Before all questions start ...
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Merge [google-nacl] into [google-nativeclient]
Merge google-nacl into google-nativeclient.
Google tends to write it out, so we should too.
For example they don't use the NaCl abbreviation on their SDK page at all: ...
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Ambiguous tag: native-client
native-client is ambiguous, it refers to both sql-server-native-client and google-nativeclient.
There are only 13 questions using this tag, so it should be easy to split.
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Why isn't the Stackexchange logo posted on the ASP.NET Get Started Page?
On the ASP.NET Get Started Page (See the logo in the Customer Section), we can see that Stack Overflow is one of ASP.NET main clients. They didn't include the Stack Exchange logo instead which ...
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Main reason for the choice of .NET to build StackOverflow?
I'm new to SO and I find this site very well done. So I was wondering What Was Stack Overflow Built With? and I easily find the answer.
Now I'm curious to know what is the main reason of this ...
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system-message about db maintenance on facebook.stackoverflow.com [closed]
Since yesterday (18/02/2012) StackExchange maintenance there is a message on facebook.stackoverflow.com
In just a bit, Stack Overflow will be offline for 30 minutes while we give our database ...
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How to use old post if we have same question but no user have answered [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I get attention for my old, unanswered questions?
I have one question how to block incoming block , i am able to block incoming calls but its rings for fraction ...
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Reputation sharing between Microsoft forums and Stack Overflow
My 2 most favorite forum sites are the Microsoft forums as well Stack Overflow. I have spent a lot of time answering questions and building my reputation on the Microsoft forums and have recently ...
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SO tag synonym proposal: [rtl] -> [right-to-left]
Suggest Stack Overflow tag rtl to be a synonym of tag right-to-left.
right-to-left (65 questions tagged as of now)
description: none
rtl (172 questions tagged as of now)
description:
Right to ...
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Suggestion for Site Improvement — Down-Voting [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Encouraging people to explain down-votes
Change Down Voting to Require Comment for Why & Change Flag to Report
It would be very helpful as a person asking a ...
