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206 questions linked to/from Fastest Gun in the West Problem
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About a month ago, we rolled out a new feature: instant self-answered questions. So far, the reception has been mostly positive, and I've definitely seen some really good stuff posted in this form. ...
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One of the earliest phenomena noticed in Stack Overflow's voting system is the FGITW problem: the first answer is more likely to get upvotes than subsequent answers. Even if later answers are ...
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It seems non-coincidental that the paper by May, Wachs, and Hannák (2019) was published online on the 8-th February 2019, shortly prior to the recent change to question reputation points (13-th ...
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Are we an answer factory, or are we here to educate? I've been reading Stack Exchanges far longer than I have been participating in them, but I have noticed a trend of people answering questions ...
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According to this FAQ entry, the only restriction on self-deleting an answer is that you can't delete an answer that's been accepted. But I've also heard of users getting in trouble for deleting (non-...
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After less than 24 hours in a fairly closed beta, it's clear that the current voting system is not actually causing the "best" on- and off-topic questions to rise to the top. Out of the ten most-...
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I already came across questions to which many people "knew" the answer. Usually it gets many upvotes and downvotes, many answers and even more comments. It gets voted to be closed and re-opened again. ...
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I never planned this out, but I found myself more inclined to up-vote people with lower reputation. Is this something you guys experienced, and do you think it's unfair?
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Please forgive my lame, fastest gun in the west analogy. I am easily amused. Part of the fire hose, sequence of domestic responsibilities that is my Sunday night, I occasionally employ some extreme ...
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This is a public request to all Meta Stack Exchange users. There's a certain behaviour pattern that's... not great, but common, and this is basically a request to do this differently. More ...
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How can we make reputation a reflection of trust rather than how many ambiguous, argumentative, and general questions you can answer/ask before the mods notice? Look at any high reputation person, ...
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I've been finding "answers" that are slapped together and submitted, with the sometimes explicit intention of "I'm going to edit this". e.g. draft post, more content coming This seems silly, and I ...
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Does Stack Overflow have any mechanism to guard against "mutual" cheats? I noticed that sometimes, when someone asks a stupid and easy-to-answer question, almostly instantly, a full, good answer from ...
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Edit: This question isn't a duplicate of Acceptable solution for 'answer copying'?. The quote in the highest voted answer on that question is "Bottom line: if you want to get up-votes, WRITE A ...
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I can guess, that to the most of Meta residents I looks like no more than some irritating rascal, only good for raising unrest and harassing people. That is not so true. Great most of time I spend on ...
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