As a moderator (and somewhat de facto first line of support when things go awry), it's helpful when we can reproduce issues and see what the users are seeing. With the latest April Fools Day (Unicoin, I think), we have no visibility into any changes until they happen in our timezone, causing us ...

This is hard to do cross-browser. Roger Johansson has investigated this rather extensively.

I think we can all agree, this sucks: If you've been around a little while, you've probably encountered hundreds of answers like this in various forums, some of them even marked as "The Answer" by well-meaning1 forum admins looking to close a thread. We could try to enumerate the commonly-obse...

For those confused about the title, there's a joke that every moderator has a "diamond hammer" (diamond from the little ♦ by the username). In a chat discussion, it was brought to my attention that a diamond can burn (which makes total sense because it's pure carbon) after I got a notification in...

It is bond strength, not hardness, that determines how easily oxygen can attack and burn a material, allowing me to burn a diamond in a pool of liquid oxygen resting in a block of graphite. Diamond is hard because its bonds form an inflexible, three-dimensional lattice. However, the stre...

Not all of them mind you, just Meta Stack Overflow into Meta Stack Exchange. I'll have you know, factually, that we really did believe this would take place in six-to-eight weeks when it was originally announced, but we've finally got a tentative date established. If things go according to plan...

It really depends on the question. If it's just coincidentally related to school, then it's fine. Examples: My student asked me this question: [insert question]. Good! My student is failing the class, how can I help him succeed? Not really... Where should we go on a feild trip? Too localized. ...

Evan Carroll is a special case. He's not your average troll. He has thousands of points on Stack Overflow. Clearly, he 'gets' the system, and is in fact a valuable contributor. This strengthens the case that he is deliberately trolling Meta, and not just being completely clueless time after time....

You know, there hasn't been too much research into this... but there has been some. For the most part, it's been proven that a green sky most likely means that a thunderstorm is coming. According to a researcher: Green is significant, but not proof that a tornado is on the way. A green clou...

It's not too too likely, but it can happen. A few earthquakes have either been attributed to fracking, or the wastewater produced from fracking. According to the USGS (for more information, visit that page): Many questions have been raised about whether hydraulic fracturing — commonly know...