It'd be nice for questions that have close or reopen votes to show that on the home or questions page, maybe like this pic: EDIT: This would only show for the 3k+ users who could vote to open or close.

I am logging in in SO from a Mac, and the font used for the question textarea is difficult to read. Could not be possible to have two buttons that allow to change the font, if somebody is having problems with the browser he is actually using? As alternative, if that is not possible, could not be ...

Possible Duplicate: Is staff plural? It always sounds wrong to me when people refer to a a proper team/group/band/etc in plural form, e.g.: Nirvana are the creators of grunge. The Avalanche are on the road to the Stanley Cup this year. To me, this sounds correct: Nirvana is...

What is correct to say? Korn* is a great band OR Korn* are a great band. (* You can replace your favourite band's name here) Of course everybody there is no doubt about the following sentences: The Beatles are a great band Led Zeppelin is a great band But with certain kin...

Right now, the maximum privilege "unlock" is at 10k reputation: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/privileges We're considering adding a new 20k reputation privilege, but having a hard time figuring out exactly what it should be. Two guidelines: I would like it to be more than cosmetic -- I'd pre...

I have seen a lot of backlash in internet media against people using the word literally to mean something not literal. Something like "he was literally as big as a house" to mean someone was very big I think this comic sums up the anti literal movement well http://theoatmeal.com/comics/literally ...

Consider this example: I'm sorry if you got the impression that I meant to insult you. That was not my intention. Would it be correct to say that the above person apologized? All the dictionaries I have checked defined "to apologize" as admitting one's fault. However, in the above example...

Seems like pretty much every question is a usage question, so keeping around a "usage" tag seems about as pointless as having a "programming" tag at Stack Overflow would be. Does anyone object to my re-tagging questions to not have the pointless tag "usage"?

I wrote a quick little Perl script to scan through the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary: #!/usr/local/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use Data::Dumper; my @size; while (<>) { my ($word) = split / /, $_; next unless $word =~ m/^[A-Z]+$/; my @letters = split //, $word; my %coun...

You can probably type faster than you can clean up images and install OCR engines: #!/usr/bin/perl (my$d=q[AA GTCAGTTCCT CGCTATGTA ACACACACCA TTTGTGAGT ATGTAACATA CTCGCTGGC TATGTCAGAC AGATTGATC GATCGATAGA ...

It isn't a grammar issue at all. The backlash stems from the fact that they are using the word incorrectly. "Literally" should not be used for emphasis. Just because a lot of people make the same mistake doesn't make it correct.

First of all, there are issues that are much more urgent, such as the site search being rather useless, but even those feature requests are currently being rejected on the meta Meta. My impression is that the powers that be are somewhat hesitant about tweaking the StackExchange engine for beta ...