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We will stop accepting contributions to Documentation on August 8 2017 On behalf of everyone who worked on Documentation, I want to thank all 15,451 users who contributed. We particularly want to ...
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As you might have noticed, we launched an experiment on Stack Overflow called Discussions (currently only available within the NLP Collective). This post is the origin story behind this feature, ...
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Update: 5 months later, I think the answer is "No!". There have been discussions about the atrocious state of Discussions and at this point it's hardly worth saving. I understand and share ...
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Discussions has got a lot of attention recently, none of it good. The volume of spam in the area is at an all-time high, which isn't disappearing quickly due to the lack of the usual tools. This is ...
Score of 72
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As of last night (between 19:00 and 21:00 UTC 07 January 2024) the discussion feature has started to be flooded with spam. Prior to that time, there were maybe 250~ posts on the Discussions Page, ...
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Update — January 19, 2024 We are concluding this experiment effective January 19 and the module will no longer appear for users. The objective was to increase traffic to the Collectives-specific ...
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People are abusing public discussions to ask for help. Not only they are abusing the site and evading restrictions, they are also wasting time of people in collectives. They post non-discussion topics ...
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A new site area for subjective discussions has been announced in the WeAreDevelopers talk and on SO Labs, scheduled for release in August 2023. My understanding is that the feature is just for ...
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UPDATE: March 4, 2024 This answer below details the updated to flag reasons that was informed by dialogue on this post. This question is carrying on conversation and points from this one, but framing ...
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We currently have two questions, asked within the past year, tagged untagged. "Untagged" seems suspiciously like one of those dread Meta tags that we are not supposed to have on SO. In fact, it's the ...
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Discussions are now available within the following collectives: CI/CD Collective NLP Collective PHP Collective R Language Collective Today (August 21, 2023), Stack Overflow is launching an ...
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Over the last little while, I've seen a number of posts like this one. Most likely, that will be removed shortly so here's a screenshot: Basically, a user encounters a question without a answer (or ...
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Sometimes, I find tag information that is marketing talk, or in other ways, problematic. I usually try to fix it. But, being a below 2k user, I frequently cannot make an edit suggestion, and as there ...
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The Discussions experiment was announced in July on the Stack Overflow blog and the Stack Overflow Labs microsite. The Discussion experiment started on the NLP collective and was expanded to other ...
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I've just noticed that R and PHP are the only programming languages with their own Collective. A lot of the "discussions" in the PHP Collective are more fitted to be questions (such as this ...

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