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15 questions linked to/from Provide 10k users more close votes
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Structured Tag Cleanup Initiative Phase II
Back in 2012, we launched the Structured Tag Cleanup Initiative (STCI). It was very successful in identifying tags to create, merge, remove, and blacklist. However, it has been about 3 years since ...
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Where to start?
Often the question shows up of something along the lines of:
I'm trying to learn language XYZ. Where should I start?
or
I'm trying to do ${very large project}. Where should I start?
Why are ...
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The number of votes required to close and reopen questions is temporarily reduced . . . for science!
This experiment is over. I will be adding an answer to show the results and suggest a plan for going forward.
For the next 30 days, closing a question will require just 3 votes. Also 3 votes will be ...
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Is there any point in this site still existing?
Observing the flurry of downvotes on a recent question, I took a moment to click over to Newest Questions and tally up the negatives.
Of the most recent 50 questions at the time I counted, 25 of them ...
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How many questions do we get from users recently blocked at SO, how many of these are closed / deleted?
Recent efforts in SO close vote queue make me think that quite a lot of users started hitting the question ban there.
There is long known "tradition" of attempts to circumvent such bans by posting at ...
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Recent Trouble With Popularity
A few recent questions seem to exhibit issues explained in The Trouble With Popularity article:
we discovered that these posts... truly start to drown out everything else on the site... it's too ...
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Let's help askers who are trying to circumvent question block at Stack Overflow
If a first time asker has an SO account that was recently (say, within a week) question blocked over there, how about showing them a warning like this:
Wait! You've recently been blocked at Stack ...
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'Problem' and 'help' titles in off-topic questions of new users coming from Stack Overflow [duplicate]
I recently learned that some off-topic questions seem to be posted at Programmers with sole purpose to circumvent 'problem' and 'help' title block at Stack Overflow.
Can we do something to save these ...
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Examples of inappropriately closed questions
This is a follow up to BartMan's question, which is now locked. We shouldn't be dismissive of the over-moderation concerns of potential new users. You asked for 10 examples of inappropriately closed ...
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Is it okay to flag for moderator intervention attempts to circumvent question block at other site?
I recently flagged an off-topic (implementation) question that was posted here with sole purpose to circumvent "problem" title block at Stack Overflow. I described the issue in "need of moderator ...
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Perform automatic checks for cross-posting and question block at SO when post enters close queue, not only at attempt to migrate [duplicate]
Suggest to perform automatic checks for cross-posting (including deleted SO cross-posts, like this one for example) and question block / warning at Stack Overflow when post enters close queue, not ...
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How to get more people doing reviews?
We're nowhere near the point of Stack Overflow with (at the time of this writing) 65.9k questions in the close queue.
I've noticed an uptick in the queue of people flagging questions. In a batch of ...
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Using Programmers as "learning and training area" for Stack Overflow kind questions [duplicate]
Related: Create a New Stack Overflow Instance for Beginner Users and Content (MSO).
We are getting many off-topic / implementation and coding kind questions where askers appear to be aware of Stack ...
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What would be the reasons to comment on a question instead of voting to close it?
I notice that gnat often comments on questions explaining why they would probably be closed, writing comments such as:
why didn't you ask at Stack Overflow? meta.stackexchange.com/a/129632/165773
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Grant more close votes for close reviewers
Based upon a recent answer1, 2 to a previous question of mine, I'd like to re-visit an older request.
Please give all close voters3 on Programmers 50 votes instead of the standard 244.
Why?
All of ...
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