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You could be antagonizing newcomers

If you think somebody is being rude, flag that post/comment. We'll talk to them if we think it's becoming a problem. "Be nice" is a rule around here and the mods do everything we can to make sure peo …
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How does SE generate profile pictures for new users?

They're third party. Look at the src URL of one. Here's muru's: https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/0ce9def9898b5e9e0339ccc26c57ae94?s=48&d=identicon&r=PG The jumble there is an MD5 hash of the user's …
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Questions that have been asnwered, but the OP no longer has an account so can't accept an an...

The voting system already does this. The most popular answer floats to the top. Whether or not it has been accepted really makes very little difference to the person who finds the answer via a search …
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When asking for advice, How can I make my questions more clear?

We don't expect new users to know what's relevant, which is why users can update their questions. In many cases you haven't done this yet. …
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What can I do to improve the reputation of someone (a colleague) that answered my question?

Guidelines when voting for friends That applies to colleagues, family, friends and people you meet on the street. As soon as you're voting for somebody you know preferentially, you're giving them an u …
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Can I Know User Is Logged in or Not?

Can you know? No. But leave them a comment (using their @name if applicable) and they'll get a notification when they are online.
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Privileges Issue

The barriers are there to protect us (and our users) as much as they are there to annoy personally you :) New users and spammers tend to go image and link mad. … Comments aren't checked as ritually as new users' posts so would slip through the quality nets. Chat rooms are limited to prevent further abuse. …
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How to check how many users are registered with AU til date?

section but as we're not allowed to show you any of the detail in there (of which this probably counts) I built you a query on data.stackexchange.com: http://data.stackexchange.com/ubuntu/query/80302/new-users-per-day … You can download the spreadsheet from: http://people.ubuntu.com/~oli/au-users-20120626.ods …
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Is Jorge Castro a Robot?

The facts: Jorge is the result of an elaborate Chinese botnet running on millions of Windows XP computers around the world. He became self-aware in 2003. He controls more bandwidth than Google, Mic …
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How can I pass a question on to another user?

Omnipotent as we are (or more accurately: aren't), even your moderators don't appear to be able to switch the user of a post. You could write to the StackExchange team (link at the bottom of the page) …
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Why are there so many new users with 101 reputation?

You start with 1 point. You get 100 points for associating your account with one on another Stack-site (provided that other account has 200+ rep). There's more of an explanation here on the StackOverf …
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