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Answer with 2 upvotes but only +10 rep [duplicate]
I posted this answer yesterday. Today I see it has 2 upvotes but in the top-right achievements/reputation notification, it only showed +10 instead of +20. I checked my rep history on my profile (TIL ...
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Please provide some indication/differentiation for 'free' upvotes not affecting reputation to reduce user confusion
Posting this as a dedicated feature request based on staff recommendation here.
Please differentiate somehow between free votes and 'real' votes. Preferably, this would be visible when looking at the ...
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Was this too much of an edit?
I just came across a (temporarily deleted) answer during review, that upon first glance looked like a bunch of word vomit or spam.
However, upon reading through it twice, I realized, that the author ...
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Staging Ground not trapping short ambiguous beginner questions. Why not?
I have noticed several reputation one single sentence questions go straight into normal space on Stack Overflow without first passing through Staging Ground recently. This one is a particularly bad ...
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Is "Linked" topics panel in questions so not-important?
I am often looking at "Linked" topics on the right to go through duplicate chains or whatever when searching for answers to my or someone's else problem (yes, I am checking for duplicates ...
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Why was this flag on an AI slop answer from an obvious spam account declined?
I've flagged this post (screenshot for <10K) for moderator for both being AI slop, and the account for being an obvious advertisement.
(As a side note I also VTC the question, since it's request ...
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Upcoming opinion-based questions alpha experiment on Stack Overflow
Today, we are following up on our announcement regarding the topic of including opinion-based questions on Stack Overflow. The Community Enablement team would like to share some details about our ...
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Vote to Close as Duplicate even though duplicate question has no answers [duplicate]
I came across this question VBA opening 365 Workbook, need Editable, only can get ReadOnly, which seemed to be a very obvious duplicate of SharePoint File opening as Read Only. The only problem is ...
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Are Discussions gone for good?
With the launch of Coding Challenges taking the place of Discussions and the recent announcement that discussion-style questions are coming to Stack Overflow, has the sun set on Discussions™?
I note ...
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How can I write good answer without being flagged as LLM-generated
I ask this question in continuation of this question.
Lately I've been trying to figure out exactly what makes a good answer on Stack Overflow.
If I write carefully, using proper punctuation, grammar, ...
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Can I ask help in Meta to improve a post? [closed]
I wanted to improve some posts on the site. Can I ask for help here? Because sometimes I get downvote without any comments and I can't figure it out Like this.
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I'm [language-lawyer]ing, but is it a language?
The language-lawyer tag has the excerpt:
For questions about the intricacies of formal or authoritative specifications of programming languages.
My edit adding this tag to a question about icalendar ...
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Question closed for lack of details/clarity, no comment given
This question of mine:
Thunderbird equivalent of browser.runtime.getURL()?
was closed since it "needs details or clarity".
But - it was clear enough for someone to answer it; and no comment ...
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Uninvolved 1-rep users can comment on protected posts in ways that subvert the purpose of protecting the post [duplicate]
While handling flags, I came across this answer post where in the past ~3 months, several 1-rep users have commented code dumps onto the top answer posts. The question has many views and is protected, ...
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Obsolete answers [closed]
I have been a user and fan of StackOverflow now for over 15 years; in this time I have accessed and found so many solutions in so many areas of programming, I cannot begin to recount. Over the years, ...
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