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Wasting a tag to properly format code
Well first, I must say you just taught me something: I did not know the tag associated to a question was used by SE to guess which programming language is used and how to format/highlight code blocks. ...
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Adding a community specific close message for homework
YES, please.
DSP.SE has such a close reason:
This question appears to be homework. Complete answers to homework are off-topic, but specific questions about homework are acceptable if they include ...
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I'd like us to participate in the three-vote close experiment
I support moving to a three close vote (if SE will allow it). The close review que has been hovering from 100-200 questions that need to be reviewed for quite sometime (at least 6 months) which means ...
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Let me Google that for you
LTGTFY comments are rude in my opinion, and I'm not the only one. In a lot of cases it would take just as much time to point the OP in the right direction than to scoff at them so why not help people ...
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Homework questions, and the Tour guidance
We are working on updating the process for homework questions, specifically adding a "homework without an attempt" closure reason.
You are right that we need to get some guidance into the ...
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Poor reviewing of Suggested Edits
My answer is: YOU seem to be reviewing the reviewers, and that's great! That's what community involvement is all about.
There are a couple of ways of dealing with this.
You can roll back the edit, ...
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Repair Guidelines-- Where are they, and where should they be
I frequently leave the following comment (or some variation of it) on repair questions:
Welcome to EE.SE! This appears to be a reverse engineering, modification, or repair question. Please be aware ...
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I'd like us to participate in the three-vote close experiment
This is live.
I've reviewed the request and your recent history and I can definitely see that this will likely benefit the site. Thanks for your patience while we got to the place we could make this ...
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Points for the first and second answerer
If anything, we have the reverse problem. Twice in just the last few days, I saw a question with only one mediocre answer, wrote a good answer, and discovered that the OP had accepted the mediocre ...
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Points for the first and second answerer
Speed is not what I would like to see in answers.
Way too many people already jump on new questions with badly worded, half explained answers that contain the truthful core of an answer, but none of ...
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Vote for an answer to become accepted
According to this answer on Meta, the Community bot only bumps
Questions with at least 30 days of no activity, at least one answer scoring zero, and no answers scoring above that.
So if you want ...
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Why are down-votes locked
Still, at least a couple of times I have revisited the question/answer the following day, and found replies that made me regret my down-vote. For instance, I may read a response that points out ...
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Project deposit feature
What you're describing is a personal blog.
There are several places that offer free blog or project status hosting, as well as code hosting, but StackExchange is not one of them.
When you start ...
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Reputation expenditure in reviews
You will get back the reputation once the answer is deleted (either by a moderator or the user), so if you are 100% sure that the answer is inappropriate then you can go ahead and downvote, there will ...
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Let me Google that for you
Trevor, your sentiment is well understood and shared by a large portion of the users around the network. There is a dedicated meta question about the topic.
However, the general direction is to try ...
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I'd like us to participate in the three-vote close experiment
I agree with OP, I think OP is the best. Let's do it!
But seriously, this answer is here so that people who agree can upvote, and those who disagree can downvote.
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Can we stop the Community bot from "bumping" old questions?
I am pretty sure this can't be disabled (see Allow sites to disable or otherwise tweak Community auto-bumping). And it happens on all sites, but maybe the chance to stumble upon such a post depends on ...
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Browsing unanswered questions, how to scroll efficiently
To specifically reach page 348:
https://electronics.stackexchange.com/unanswered/tagged/?page=348&tab=votes
Simply replace the number following page= in the URL.
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Feature request for uploading small-sized sound and movie file, and SVG format still image files
I'm curious how often you anticipate this being used, and for what purpose. More than 9 times out of 10, a video in a question does nothing to clarify the answer, and (personally) I won't watch it ...
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Low quality question tag?
You have a history of asking poor questions. These get downvoted and/or closed, and the system has locked you out as a result. This is to protect the site from more of the same crap you've already ...
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Homework questions, and the Tour guidance
I would like to discourage questions along the lines of "Is my answer right?" if we can. I don't feel that such questions fall within the spirit of "indicate where you are stuck".
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Feature request for uploading small-sized sound and movie file, and SVG format still image files
If this is done, please do not have the files play automatically when the web page is loaded. Moving images are distracting when you're trying to read text, and having sound coming out of your ...
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Specifics of downvotes
Yes, it is frustrating to receive downvotes with no corresponding critique. However, voting in general is anonymous for good reasons, so commenting is strictly voluntary. This has been debated many ...
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Specifics of downvotes
I didn't see that question originally. Now that I have, I have downvoted it for the terribly out of focus pictures. Those are volunteer abuse.
Think about it. Would you hand in homework like this? ...
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Poor reviewing of Suggested Edits
I suggest you bring up a specific review on meta if you think it's particularly bad. I'm not a fan of public tarring and feathering, but I don't expect experienced users who read meta to go on a witch ...
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Dark mode for EE.SE
Some new features, such as following questions and answers, are very easy to roll out across the entire network. Just update the codebase and it works. Dark Mode is sadly not one of those things; they'...
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