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I have a general question prompted by a specific event. I often see comments where two users cannot seem to get on the same page. Eventually a prompt appears to move into chat which is helpful in lots ...

I posted https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66099151/ a while ago. It was sitting there idly, not catching much attention. A few days ago, I noticed someone downvoted it. I don’t understand why: I ...

This Stack Exchange Meta question asks the question whether we should remove 'hi', 'thanks' and other salutations from posts. The general view of the community has always been to remove greetings and ...

I'm actually purposefully not going to go into details here, so hopefully you will still read this question even if it is specifically devoid of details. Let's say the following happens: A question ...

I am new to Stack Overflow and I noticed that posts can't run R or print the output of R code. Why is this?

Is there a way to export all user data (questions, answers, comments, etc.) from stack exchange websites? If so, where can I download it? If not, is it a planed feature? Isn't right of access a legal ...

I encountered the following review audit (on this post) in the Low Quality Posts Review Queue. I marked this post to be Recommended for Deletion with a standard "This is a link-only answer" ...

As per title. How can I request all of my data from Stack Overflow and request removal off all data collected about me.

Someone commented to me: "please do not forget to update and accept answers" but I can't figure out where or how to do this. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Currently, there are 6,293 questions with the amazon-cloudformation tag. The aws-cloudformation tag is a synonym for amazon-cloudformation. However, as can be seen here, the official branding for ...

I guess given the how the question is framed, this post would invite dislikes but asking any how. How does one ensure (using a mechanism that is within the site) that key ideas in questions are not ...

As already mentioned here, the robotics community is used to asking their questions on a different forum very similar to the Stack Exchange Network: answers.ros.org. There are about 25 questions ...

On the main site only, the headers of closed questions look transparent now: and so do the popups when flagging comments - but only the ones that used to have blue background, e.g. when flagging the ...

Early today I made a question - this one How to check if attribute exist and access sub attribute on the same line? In it, the topic was about how to get a certain operation on an inline format, and ...

I truly appreciate the support of the community here. I would be happy to accept the answers but, I can't seem to find where/how I do that. I'm sure it's an easy thing to do but it's not intuitively ...

We're almost halfway through 2021, and in case you missed it, Open Source Advertising is gonna be a bit different this time! TL;DR: submit and vote for ad proposals before August 2nd! What are ...

So, I found out today that I am banned from posting on Stack Overflow. I went on to read what a post-ban means and how it is implemented. However, upon reading why I am (possibly) banned, I could not ...

I am trying to understand what is the purpose of articles. This feature was announced in 2020 and released in 2021 for teams. And currently articles is a part of collectives feature. The articles can ...

Today (15 July 2021) a very well respected and brilliant member, BalusC, has reached a million reputation points! As of today, he has posted 17,102 answers which we greatly appreciate.

Until recently, a complex query was possible. But now, I get as response Bad Request - Invalid URL. When I shorten the query it still works. More specifically this long query doesn't work on SO, but ...

I made a really good answer to: How to programmatically set the sequence of equations using VBA according to variables' precedence? The question basically asks how to parse expressions that are in a ...

Some time ago I've answered this question (screenshot for < 10k users), which was then deleted by the author (whose profile also seems to have been deleted). I've since requested undeletion and ...

I'm curious. I figured there are no fixed dates for Stack Overflow moderator elections and they are not even guaranteed to hold as an annual event. How do we know when an election is forthcoming? Is ...

So I was considering flagging a question. I haven't flagged anything for a few weeks. Why do I have 76 flags remaining? 76 seems like a very arbitrary number. How was it chosen?

I'm resigning as a moderator from all Stack Exchange sites, effective today. I didn't make this decision lightly, frivolously or suddenly. A persistent pattern of corporate missteps, and a ...

As far as I understand Articles are official "how-to" guides and as such represent and can serve as canonical duplicate targets. Allow voting to close questions as duplicate of Articles. ...

There is a new feature Collectives, and I saw a few people posted their articles. I also saw section My Articles, but I cannot find an option how to create one. How can I create an article?

I made a comment on the 'Privacy is an afterthought in the software lifecycle. That needs to change.' article and the formatting is very strange. I can't tell if I messed it up or if it just doesn't ...

I'll cut to the chase and just attach screenshot: It seems pretty clear that the text in the "Comment" column of the history since question closure is incorrectly escaped HTML code. Here ...

Right now we have: github-copilot - no tag description, contains five questions at time of asking (all about GitHub Copilot, at least); copilot - tag description is: GitHub Copilot is an AI pair ...

The updates tag has the following description: [Instead of using this tag, please use the appropriate tag for the software and/or library in question] Updates can refer to the modification of data or ...

I'm an experienced VHDL designer, but sometimes I have questions, too. Many of my questions in the topic of VHDL receive a -1 downvote right after posting them on SO. There was never a comment ...

We are currently on the free tier. Team users experience issues reaching/joining the Stack Overflow for Teams team (they keep getting redirected to the login page, even though they are already logged ...

This post https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66992043/how-to-detect-that-were-in-design-mode was deleted. I still think it is a useful question and a useful answer. Some respondents were confused by ...

I have a question on SQL which is really hard to ask without tables. I tried copying and pasting from Excel but it didn't work. How do I paste table in Stack Overflow so I can ask an actual question?

I propose to add an option to filter triage questions by tags. The implementation can be like in the close queue and the motivation for my request is, well, the same as it was when the close queue was ...

Triple-DES is a cryptography algorithm for a block cipher. From the linked Wikipedia page: In cryptography, Triple DES (3DES or TDES), officially the Triple Data Encryption Algorithm (TDEA or Triple ...

A couple of times already I asked some question whose whole point was to avoid the typical, well-known answer. This attracted lots of low-quality comments and somehow made people unhappy to the point ...

I asked a question about Firebase configuration, but it was closed. I edited my question, but the question is not reopened. What should I do?

Several hours ago, I flagged this answer as not being an answer. Now I noticed that this flag has been declined due to "a moderator reviewed your flag, but found no evidence to support it", ...

I am volunteering with an open-source community and want to know how we can create collectives for any community here. I see there are only two collectives as of now, "Google Cloud" and &...

I came across this thread (now deleted), https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/399436/why-was-this-comment-chain-removed-from-the-moderator-questionnaire/399460, about a chain of comments removed ...

The semantics tag is somewhat confusing: some questions with this tag are about semantics of programming languages, but others are about semantics in natural language processing. Is it possible to ...

When reviewing this Suggested Edit, I could not found the Improve Edit and Reject and Edit buttons. Also, it (i.e. the top one named VSFTPD and Symfony) seems quite different from others in the ...

Please reopen Combining data sets in the means of UNION. Following the advice from the 1st comment I have updated and extended my description.

Obviously the question should be somewhat related to programming or software development, but it feels a bit odd putting them on Stack Overflow because of the nature of the topic - oftentimes they are ...

I'm not a UX expert but in my experience, visited links are usually styled with a "more dull" color. With this new dark mode, it seems the be quite the opposite. Here are some examples: Home ...

There are a lot of questions on Stack Overflow, which is "on hold" or "duplicated". As all we know, Stack Overflow uses the brackets [] convention for indicating this. like the following image ...

A picture is worth a thousand words (Sorry for my bad coloring skills): I think these very long question titles should wrap. I have found this bug while exploring a question in Stack Overflow. I am ...

Out of curiosity, why was it decided to keep the Stack Overflow logo monochromatic in dark mode? The light mode uses the colored logo. Wouldn't it have been a better choice to keep the logo colored ...