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After the topbar redesign, the login link has moved to the Stack Exchange icon on the right side: You can also just click this handy link to log out.

Usernames are not unique. Anyone can name themselves anything they want, as well as rename themselves whenever they want. As a demonstration, go to Users and search for John. You'll have hundreds of h …

After you get 200 vote/suggested edit reputation, you're done for the day. Excess reputation that doesn't fall under the exception of a bounty or an accept is lost forever. That said, if you do get a …

The community user will randomly bump old questions to the front page in order to attract more attention. It will only bump questions that meet certain criteria: A question score >= 0 Gone at least …

I'm one of the people who rejected the review. Hello. Let me try to rationalize my decision based on the data I had at the time I clicked the button according to my own opinion. And, for the sake of …

You've answered the question. As you're allowed to see your own deleted posts, you must also be allowed to see any parent posts of said deleted posts. In other words, you can see your answer. Which m …

Right now, there's an interesting page on the Help Center: How to Ask Questions in Private Beta. As Ask Ubuntu is not really in private beta anymore, is this page really necessary? Or, more accuratel …

So, I was looking at my (rather depressing) meta profile badge to-do list when I noticed something interesting: The repcap badges are present! Upon digging a bit further into this, I noticed that p …

Because your question has a bounty attached to it, you may not close it at the moment by yourself. Use the flag button on your post to get a moderator's attention. Be sure to select the in need of mo …

Questions are placed "on hold" when the community (or a moderator) have decided that the question is not a good fit for the site. If a question remains on hold long enough, it will be marked as "close …

If you hover over the blue reputation bonus, you'll see a tooltip come up: This also works on the answers directly: If you go to a post's timeline, you can also get a direct link to the profile …

You can closevote your own questions if they're not up to the site's quality expectations. You automatically unlock this privilege at 250 reputation, and it has been around for a while now. As said in …

You do get to keep the +2 reputation from closed questions. However, you will lose the +2 reputation if the question is actually deleted.

Let's take a look! According to the official guidelines for scrapers, all scrapers must have the following things: Visually indicate that the content is from StackExhange in some way. It doe …

As we all see, there is a topbar on this site that has Canonical links to various Ubuntu tools on it. If I were to remove that on the clientside using userscripts that I publish as open-souce, would …