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I think it's a good general practice to try and clean up these links, but we may or may not ever run in to the problem of someone poisoning the bad domain list or a heuristic picking up on some blog t …

I gave the question an uptick, but I'm in the high rep use boat. I don't downvote though. I think it's a solid concern that easy to answer questions can get rep rockets, while hard to answer quest …

We used to use the "unclear what you're asking" close reason for that, but the verbage to the reason has changed. It used to contain "was only relevant to a specific user or at a specific point in ti …

My opinion, if you REALLY wanted to flag that as low quality, you could just use a custom reason and put "Link only answer". I'd drop a comment first though, saying something like "Link only answers …

There's a question that tells people how to do that, but we can't launch the information gathering tools to report bugs from the webpage. So, I'm not sure that's a do-able solution. It seems to be w …

I suggested something in a conversation about here. Basically, should we just farm "hot words" from things that are flagged, then if they're in below .01 of questions just add them to smoke detector? …

Seeing a new XKCD pop in might be fun, but since I recently had to ignore the UL bot/feed - I'm not sure Anyone - including myself needs to say "Let's add some noise..." note: Oli's answer got a + …

I like Jorge's answer. I would also add, though, that rep isn't just a trust measure either. It's also a metric for understanding how the system works. So, if you only ask questions - but you've …

I like this idea. I'll also be interested to see a graph of the numbers of off-topic by distribution before and afters if it happens.

Flagging should not be as gamified as voting. If voting requires thought, flagging is serious. You shouldn't submit marginal flags. Adding "points" to something makes it an activity people do t …

Wouldn't it be more auspicious to start putting together queries for the database browser for issues and just adding some maintenance feeds for people that are earnestly concerned? For example '/usr/ …

I think this is related to me changing my name. Consider what happens if that takes place. I have 500 questions/answers combined. They don't need to know when I change my name. It would be a nuisa …

I agree. I think people often star things in chat to point or agree, but un-star it because it probably doesn't belong on the starred wall. It may or may not be "just for fun" although I have seen …

I'm not sure the FAQ really needs updating. It opens a lot of doors to questions that would clutter the site (and our answered rate is already dropping). Adding topics surely won't help that. It …

It wouldn't be useful to "lock" the post during editing. It would just be a way for spam/rage posts to "lock" their posts to prevent editing out language or links.