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Ivo Flipse

Jun 20, 2012 10:49 AM

@Mahesh My head on the sidebar

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Journeyman Geek

Mar 21, 2015 4:12 AM

Contribute quietly. People notice

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random

Jan 24, 2015 3:54 AM

Why do you not have an offline hobby?

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random

Jan 24, 2015 3:38 AM

Also, save at least $10 a week. It's not much now, but it'll be something next week. $9.98 depending on inflation

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random

Jan 24, 2015 3:24 AM

Don't rush. That's most of it

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random

Jan 22, 2015 4:29 PM

Even if you didn't max out your review votes, you still need to take breaks from the site

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n8te

Sep 6, 2018 12:33 AM

Oh look, it's Hillary Clinton. How topical and clever. Lame.

DavidPostill

Sep 5, 2018 3:53 PM

@bwDraco What serial voting?

bertieb

Sep 4, 2018 2:02 PM

(nothing to see here, move along)

random

Aug 21, 2018 1:45 PM

@Biswapriyo On Meta Stack Exchange, include at least the mobile-app tag

Journeyman Geek

Jul 28, 2018 9:07 AM

@fixer1234 the user in question has had a bit of a history of... Stuff like that

DavidPostill

May 22, 2018 8:38 PM

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Q: Enable a "lang-powershell" option for Prettify on Stack Overflow

I wrote an answer on Stack Overflow with some PowerShell code examples, but there's no syntax highlighting. There are currently 29,611 (as of 2015-12-08) questions tagged powershell on Stack Overflow. Please add prettified syntax highlighting to PowerShell questions. These are the one's I experi...

DavidPostill

May 22, 2018 8:27 PM

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A: What is syntax highlighting and how does it work?

What is syntax highlighting? Syntax highlighting allows code in posts to be highlighted based on the language it's written in, to make it easier to read. How does it work? Stack Exchange does not have its own syntax highlighting engine. It uses Google Code Prettify. Therefore, any bugs and fea...

random

Jul 10, 2014 1:46 PM

@Robotnik Do you have a preferred view on the matter? Post as an answer and it'll freshen the topic.

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Canadian Luke

Jul 9, 2014 7:01 PM

@damryfbfnetsi While I agree, and we've mentioned this quite a few times... take it to Meta. Posting in here is not going to help with pushing it through.

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slhck

Jul 8, 2014 6:38 PM

Me, if you pay me 50$ an hour and give me access to the SE code.

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slhck

Jun 25, 2014 7:58 AM

@Enkouyami It's older and also, apart from Unix and Linux variants, allows questions about Windows and OS X, and other operating systems, network devices, etc. That being said, you're free to ask your *nix question on whichever site you prefer. If it's an Ubuntu question you might also want to ask on Ask Ubuntu — but they're fine here, too. It really comes down to personal preference and which community you like.

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Journeyman Geek

May 3, 2018 12:13 PM

All is fair in ~~love and war~~ Q&A

Ben N

Dec 17, 2017 6:47 AM

Indeed, I put in a little less time fact-checking in chat than on the main site, which occasionally results in getting corrected, but that's OK! We all make mistakes

DavidPostill

Oct 29, 2017 6:02 PM

@serv-inc Good enough edit - I wouldn't worry too much about it. Just be aware that posting duplicate answers creates an automatic mod flag ;)

Ben N

Oct 17, 2017 7:05 PM

It's easy to go "kicked, kicked, kicked, timeout for 1min", but that won't solve the underlying problem

Ramhound

Sep 22, 2017 3:43 PM

I mean I will be honest your question was extremely broad when you first submitted it. Additionally, attempting to compare your question today to a 6 year old question that has it's own problems, the question you linked received a closed vote from me due to it seeking a software recommendation.

Journeyman Geek

Sep 7, 2017 1:17 PM

@RamchandraGiri Well, if your answer is useful, it might help others. Sometimes folks want the fast/easy way rather than the smart/right way

DavidPostill

Sep 4, 2017 8:04 PM

@Ramhound The first link (an answer) contains the following:

DavidPostill

Sep 4, 2017 8:04 PM

> I compiled this one-liner to an .EXE which you can download here

Sathya

May 3, 2013 2:58 PM

@slhck you still get a fuckton of rep :\

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Journeyman Geek

May 6, 2017 1:19 PM

@user598527 actual mod here...

Journeyman Geek

Apr 29, 2017 12:57 AM

but constantly assuming people are out to get you is a terrible way to live

Journeyman Geek

Apr 29, 2017 12:52 AM

As a mod, an essential skill for me is trying to put myself in the user's shoes

Journeyman Geek

Apr 29, 2017 12:49 AM

High reputation does not necessarily make good mods

Sathya

Oct 12, 2012 4:05 AM

@Karan @JaredTritsch raise it on Meta Super User for a broader consensus

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Journeyman Geek

Mar 27, 2017 6:06 AM

Part of me wants to go "Hey, knock it off" - especially since the CMs have typically been very helpful to us when we actually need their help, but Its just not how I do things. Once again, this is one of the reasons people feel strongly about your posts.

Journeyman Geek

Mar 26, 2017 9:54 PM

@peterh I also utilise many other sites, and have a good working relationship, public or otherwise with their mods. And any insinuation that we're somehow controlled by SE corporate "secretly" is offensive.

Journeyman Geek

Mar 18, 2017 3:22 PM

If its on the front page, a bump means little

music2myear

Mar 16, 2017 7:00 PM

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Q: Google Drive is now Backup and Sync

I'm using Google Drive privately. Since today, I'm receiving the following error message on my computer: Something went wrong. Backup and Sync needs to quit. Error: Backup and Sync is disabled for this account. Please email uploader-eng@ from your google.com account if you need a personal accoun...

google-drive

slhck

Jul 11, 2012 2:19 PM

Well, see? @Sathya kills all the fun again.

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slhck

Jul 11, 2012 1:26 PM

Do we really want fun?

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DavidPostill

Jan 31, 2017 1:30 PM

@user598527 "There was a post on Meta if questions about disabling ads are allowed (they are)" where does it say they are allowed?

Journeyman Geek

Jan 31, 2017 1:19 PM

@user598527 superuser.com/questions/1141672/…

KronoS

Jun 22, 2012 6:26 AM

and what exactly are we doing with this? go through the questions there, clean them up, remove the tags that are fodder and vote to close/flag any that don't belong?

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Ivo Flipse

Jun 20, 2012 10:52 AM

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slhck

Jun 20, 2012 9:25 AM

What I really would not ever want are personal "You should ask this on …" comments if a question is on topic. I don't like them now, and I try my best to tell users not to post these. Blurring the FAQ to allow this kind of community-based moderation (i.e. active "nudging") would not be beneficial, so probably the only choice is to make it clear in the FAQ beforehand and let moderators silently migrate questions.

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Run5k

Jan 1, 2017 4:38 AM

That being said, the emphasis upon "Ways to encourage users to 'Accept' answers" is a valid concern. Within the Super User realm, I can think of one very prolific person when it comes to questions. He has accumulated over twenty Famous Question badges! But he also has a habit of abandoning most of his queries. His question history shows that over 90% of his last 100 questions still don't have an accepted answer, although many have viable suggestions. Is there any way to mitigate this?

slhck

Apr 10, 2012 6:54 PM

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Daniel Beck

Feb 14, 2012 9:43 PM

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Journeyman Geek

Oct 11, 2016 5:07 AM

Actually. I'm amused no one noticed

Ben N

Sep 21, 2016 11:14 PM

One possible strategy is to - before telling anyone to do anything - stop for a few moments, think about something else, and see if the original thing is still worth actioning after that time

Sathya

Aug 29, 2016 6:57 PM

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slhck

Oct 9, 2011 9:05 PM

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nhinkle

Sep 6, 2011 5:21 AM

@DragonLord you can leave a comment asking them not to just give link-only answers and encourage them to fix it, you can edit it to include more information, or if the link's no longer even useful, you can flag it and ask for it to be deleted. and of course you can downvote.

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