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What is the association bonus, and how does it work?
Congratulations! One of your linked accounts has reached 200 reputation points, and as a result, all associated accounts are given a 100 point bonus.
What is the "association bonus"?
The ...
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The Many Memes of Meta
Meme: Twitter-driven development (also occasionally called Twittergate)
Origin: Meta Stack Exchange on revisiting the Hot Network Questions feature Twitter
Cultural height: Whenever a feature is ...
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What does the Code of Conduct say about pronouns?
But what about...? The edge cases.
This section is designed to address specific circumstances that apply to a subset of users.
1. Am I forbidden to express my opinion about this?
In most contexts, ...
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Why isn't it required to provide comments/feedback for downvotes, and why are proposals suggesting this so negatively received?
Forcing downvotes to be accompanied by comments or other feedback sounds like a good idea at first, and many here would like to see new users get all the info they need to ask questions that are a ...
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What does the Code of Conduct say about pronouns?
What's this all about? - Implementation
This section focuses on guiding you on how to use these pronouns correctly.
1. Does this mean that I will be in trouble if I ever get someone's pronouns wrong?...
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Recent feature changes to Stack Exchange
December 2019
2019-12-22: Protected question notices are no longer shown to users who have enough reputation to answer, but not enough reputation to unprotect the question.
2019-12-20: The period of ...
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What does the Code of Conduct say about pronouns?
What's this all about? - The Basics
This section is an explanation of singular third-person pronouns.
1. What's this business about "pronouns"?
It would be rude to refer to a man as "she" or a ...
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Database schema documentation for the public data dump and SEDE
The Schema Visualized
The Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) above was constructed using the data found in the information_schema.columns table. (Thank you to ashleedawg for paring the table down to ...
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What does the Code of Conduct say about pronouns?
So, as a curator or moderator, what's my role?
This section covers some moderator and curator FAQs.
As a moderator
M1. I'm a moderator. What should I do if I see these rules being broken?
If ...
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How can I report bugs with or request features for the Stack Exchange mobile apps?
TL;DR: Unfortunately, you can't.
Thank you for taking the time to improve the Stack Exchange platform. Sadly, the mobile apps are no longer in development. To quote one of the Stack Exchange ...
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The Many Memes of Meta
Meme: Getting Shogged
Origin: Unknown (possibly the Tavern)
Cultural Height: unfortunately, somewhere in the past
Usage: whenever somebody, having posted an (often unfounded) complaint about Stack ...
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What events trigger an inbox notification?
What kind of notifications trigger, send, or result in an inbox notification?
The following events trigger an inbox notification. They are grouped by the 'item type' which is displayed next to the ...
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Recent feature changes to Stack Exchange
December 2018
2018-12-14: Any validated "rude or abusive" flags on a post will make that post ineligible for use as a "known-bad" audit in the Triage and Low Quality Posts review ...
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The Many Memes of Meta
Meme: bring back the polyglot
Originators: gparyani, the4kman
Background: It started when the Stack Overflow 404 page was changed to no longer include the polyglot. gparyani asked Bring back the 404 ...
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Recent feature changes to Stack Exchange
November 2022
2022-11-29: Inbox improvements are live.
October 2022
2022-10-19: For comment flags, the maximum length of the user supplied text for "Something else" flags was increased to ...
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What can I do to lift or reduce a suspension?
If I am a new contributor and unfamiliar with how things work on SE, can I appeal the suspension?
First of all, if it's your first offense and a minor one, you will usually be warned but not suspended....
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Stack Overflow's Cloudflare Usage FAQ
DNS
We use Cloudflare’s DNS service for SENetwork's name resolution. Stack also uses Amazon Route 53 and Google for DNS, however the majority of the domains we have use Cloudflare. Because Cloudflare ...
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Recent feature changes to Stack Exchange
June 2024
2024-06-26: Bounties are now an orthogonal feature, which essentially means users can vote to close a question even while it has an active bounty. (And the bounty isn't affected by it.)
...
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The Many Memes of Meta
Meme: The homepage is being Yaakoved
Originator: Shadow Wizard (in chat)
Cultural height: 2021
Background: When launching a new feature that has been discussed for years. Yaakov Ellis ♦ will mark ...
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Should questions include "tags" in their titles?
Yes, it is important to provide context in question titles. Tags are wonderful tools but they do NOT provide context in all situations, most notably:
The sidebar:
Imagine, if you will, that the use ...
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What events trigger an inbox notification?
What kind of events do not trigger an inbox notification, even though one might expect so?
Some notable events do not trigger an inbox notification:
One of your posts or comments is deleted or ...
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The Many Memes of Meta
Meme: Downvote, flag and move on
Originator: TBD
Cultural Height: TBD
Description: The response to most of "What should we do when a question is low quality" or "What should be the response for ...
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List of Sandboxes
Question and Answer Sandboxes
Site
Sandbox Question
Code Golf & Coding Challenges
Sandbox for Proposed Challenges
Computer Science Educators
The Question Sandbox
Mathematics
Sandbox for drafts of ...
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List of Sandboxes
Formatting Sandboxes
Site
Sandbox Question
Arqade
Formatting sandbox
Chemistry
Formatting Sandbox III: please test stuff here
Chess
Replayer Sandbox
English Language Learners
Formatting Sandbox – ...
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The Many Memes of Meta
Meme: Moderator paper bag
Originator: Martijn Pieters
Cultural Height: It was highlighted as a needed thing from this comment: Why was I suspended? but seems to have only two instances (latter links)...
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How do I write a good title?
One simple rule: STATE YOUR BUSINESS
Imagine what you would write if you only had the title field to present your question. And then write that.
A question title should be a one-sentence (maybe two-...
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The Many Memes of Meta
Meme: Iterative shrug evolution
Originator: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Cultural Height: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Background: The shrug character requires additional care to be properly printed in a post, by escaping the backslash ...
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What should I keep out of my posts and titles?
Things that don't belong in questions
Answers! Keep questions in the questions section and answers in the answers section. And yes, you can answer your own question.
Why?
People skimming the Q&A ...
Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible