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12:47 AM

Q: New reputation factor: No questions penalty

Our site suffers from too many bad questions. We are the second worst site in the entire network regarding answer rate. Bad questions do not get answers and they drive away the most important community members: experts. We need more good questions. Good questions are asked by people who know what...

Jared

1:05 AM

So this new 'no questions policy', everyone has to ask questions regularly now?

Rarst

ROFL that is a good one :) I hope no high rep users get heart attack over it :)

toscho

Should I add an announcement on the main page?

9 hours later…

Rarst

10:12 AM

@toscho nah, too much :)

3 hours later…

toscho

1:21 PM

@Rarst You are right, it works without any extra message.

@Rarst Why did you add the april tag?

Rarst

@toscho inattentive people need a more obvious tell :)

toscho

@Rarst Tomorrow.

Rarst

nah, it's poor form to make people, who happened to buy it, too long

toscho

One day isn’t too long.

Rarst

I am not a big fan of this day, so I like jokes just to be over with... other than initial surprise and feeling of getting fooled there is not much to them

that is some coding style... plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wp-overview-lite/tags/2011.0723.2011/…

Soulseekah

2:02 PM

Hey all, I just got a dragon tell me "I knew you would be back", is it a WPSE feature or something?

toscho

@Soulseekah See here and here.

Soulseekah

ohhh nice

sooo cool

kaiser

2:18 PM

@Rarst About your A to this Q:wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/47571/385

@kaiser what?

Chrome:

so what?

@kaiser You are aware of the difference between JavaScript and PHP?

kaiser

@Rarst @toscho Thought it was about js minification, not php

Rarst

2:24 PM

yep, that is PHP minified in this case :) and I kinda use decent IDE and kinda know how to use it... :)

(most of the time at least)

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Stephen Harris

6:08 PM

What's with the unicorn? I just back from the shops to find that a unicorn on the WPSE page was welcoming me back...

I release that last sentence might make you think I was high

Soulseekah

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Q: It's Clip-cloppy!

I love your new feature for providing apposite help on troublesome things like notifications to users of Meta Stack Overflow. Is he just an experiment, or is he a permanent new feature? That would be so awesome!

discussion user-interface notifications april-fools

Stephen Harris

@Soulseekah nice :)

Soulseekah

I thought it was a dragon :D

Stack Exchange

6:26 PM

Q: What's up with voluntarily removed questions?

So I just spend 5 minutes answering a question, and the user promptly removed it. ( http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/47597/how-to-implement-jquery-ui-autocomplete-into-custom-fields ) I feel like my answer was a waste of time. What's is up with that, are there no rules for closing qu...