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2answers
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Catch-22 situation: Link limit for new users prevents me from answering

I'm new to Stack Overflow. I was hoping it would be a way for me to share my experience and help people. I've just spent more than an hour writing an answer, with links to the appropriate MSDN ...
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2answers
90 views

How can I directly link to my SO account?

I want to add a link to my Stack Overflow account on LinkedIn. How can I get this direct link? I checked my profile, but there is nothing like a link.
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1answer
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jsfiddle only answers [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Answer that only contains a link to jsFiddle What should be done about jsFiddle only answers? Whilst jsFiddle is great, even expected for relevant tags it still suffers ...
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2answers
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For some users, StackOverflow's review page “soliciting feedback” link sends to a page with no questions [closed]

When clicking on "review" at the top of my SO page, I'm taken to http://stackoverflow.com/review/. There, there is a comment We're currently soliciting feedback on an improved system for ...
8
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2answers
115 views

Fix links to broken git documentation

There needs to be a link sweep to questions/answers in SO that are pointing to http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/. Lots of google juice for git questions are pointing to these SO ...
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3answers
91 views

How do I appropriately flag questions asking for links?

When people ask "Where do I get XYZ?" should this be flagged? How should it be flagged, as off-topic or not constructive? Take the following question as example: Accu weather API. EDIT (More ...
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4answers
851 views

Make links in Stack Overflow answers more obvious?

The color/decoration of links in answers on Stack Overflow (light blue, no decoration) is not very clear at all if one just links them in context (like I did there). Could we make them more obvious? A ...
2
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3answers
108 views

URL not rendering on StackOverflow

I've been having trouble with this lately. Can someone tell me what's wrong with my URL syntax in my answer to this question: ...
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0answers
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Links of Stack Overflow - Top list

I just noticed I have seen links to Dependency Walker for the 4th time in answer, and have to admit it is a real cool tool or generally debugging DLL dependencies. No I wonder I it would be useful to ...
2
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2answers
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How to prevent stackoverflow traffic from appearing in Google Analytics?

Hi, When developing sites I sometimes post links to sites I have problems with. I don't want this information to appear in google analytics, is there a way I can prevent the question from appearing ...
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2answers
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Can we make hyperlinks more obvious in an SO answer?

I'm not sure if this has got any worse with the updated style on StackOverflow, but hyperlinks are extremely difficult to spot in an answer: they aren't underlined (which is a standard idiom) and the ...
0
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2answers
132 views

Link parser chokes on URL

I recently posted an answer on stackoverflow that rendered perfectly in the editor preview, but in the posted text the links all got gobbled up: links were stretching across multiple lines where they ...
3
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1answer
109 views

URL links not parsing correctly on StackOverflow

The following link doesn't parse correctly on StackOverflow website. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724947%28VS.85%29.aspx It breaks on the '(' character, it seems.