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While I agree that this might breed some engagement, I think it would lead to more poor answers. One upvote is relatively easy to achieve with a poor answer.

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 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 …

Related. My opinion is no. We should not do this. It would in effect encourage splintering the site in to a bunch of different languages. Questions and answers are supposed to be English. Mak …

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.

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 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 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.

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 …

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 + …

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 …

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 …

I don't think organising training events or specific 1-to-1 mentors is really that required. Maybe just video/audio of someone for practical intents and purposes reading the Faq(not literally, but you …

Usage: ./dupes.sh posts.xml Yields: ./dupes.txt when applied to the latest data dump. dupes.sh #/bin/bash cat $1 | grep ' ClosedDate\=\"' | grep 'Possible Duplicate' | awk -F 'Possible Duplicate …

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 …