Highest scored questions
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What are "Community Wiki" posts?
Some questions and answers are marked Community Wiki and are owned by a community wiki user:
(In fact, this very question is one of them)
Why have Community Wiki posts?
How do Community Wiki posts ...
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Firing Community Managers: Stack Exchange is not interested in cooperating with the community, is it?
Less than a month ago, there was some settling of the incident with firing Monica. It's obvious that there was not a lot of approval from the community on the course of action chosen by SE, or the ...
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Show all of my question/answers to me even if they are deleted
I would really like to see all of my questions and answers on the profile page, even if some of them were deleted, and I don't have enough rep to see them on the site.
(Note that some questions are ...
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Why aren't people voting for questions?
While at least some answers from every question seem to have been up-voted as a "helpful" answer:
about 49% of questions have score of 0 or 1.
another 21% of questions have a score of 2.
Most ...
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Is there Markdown to create tables? [duplicate]
It seems like a lot of people try to display tables in Stack Overflow questions, but don't do a very good job. Is there Markdown syntax that supports creating a proper table?
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The Many Memes of Meta
Catchphrases and concepts that spread from person to person are known as memes, which, courtesy the Internet, can now explode across the Earth like a highly contagious virus (hence "going viral&...
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Allow an edit to notify downvoters: "I think I've fixed the issue now - please check"
To me, a downvote usually indicates a problem with an answer. When I downvote it's to mark the answer as having a problem, not the person. If the answer is fixed, I want to remove that downvote - but ...
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Can we have the ability to retract a close vote before it closes?
Sometimes you vote to close something and the OP then changes it to fix the issue or issues. You can't take a close vote back though. It would be nice if you could.
With the new Duplicate close ...
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What does "user was removed" mean and why did my reputation change because of it?
Message appearing when a user was removed.
It seems I lost 1765 reputation points on Stack Overflow yesterday. The reason given in my history is "removed", with the description of
User was ...
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What are the badges I can earn on each site, and what are the exact criteria for earning each badge?
Formerly List of all badges with full descriptions.
What are badge name's requirements?
Why didn't I get badge name (right now)?
Which badges can I earn multiple times?
Jump to:
Question Badges
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Give an incentive for finding duplicate questions [duplicate]
At present if you see a question that may be a duplicate and has an easy answer you can post the answers or post a link to the duplicate question. (Or the few hi-rep users can vote to close it as ...
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Net Neutrality and Stack Overflow / Stack Exchange
It's July 12th! (2017) (in Coordinated Universal Stack Exchange Time)
Today we're gonna be showing a banner directing readers to the blog post (and thus, indirectly, this discussion) from every Stack ...
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Recent feature changes to Stack Exchange
This is an unofficial list/changelog of new features and various changes to Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network.
It is maintained by the community, while a Stack Exchange employee changes ...
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Thank you, Robert Cartaino
The title says it all.
Thank you, Robert Cartaino, for everything you did for SE and the community.
I don't post much on MSE, but have been a mod for about eight years. There is a lot that can go on ...
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Moderation strike: Results of negotiations
We have reached the following conclusions during negotiations between community-selected strike representatives and representatives of Stack Exchange, Inc. This aims to address most of the concerns ...
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