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on the /review we renamed the "show all" link to "review question/answer".
we keep track of all the reviews you perform
we provide you with progress stats
we suppress posts posts that were reviewed by 2 other people from the lists
we suppress posts you already reviewed from the...
On Podcast #58, Joel and I had a disagreement. Not the first, and certainly won’t be the last:
Joel says that the only bad simple question is a duplicate simple question. I say simple questions are OK as long as they’re actually interesting (in some way) for other users to consider and answer. To prove his point, Joel actually asks the question on Stack Overflow: How do I move the turtle in LOGO? Do you think this question adds value?
We still have this disagreement. Our community is now struggling with the very same issue across multiple network sites: …
What is the purpose of the strdup() function in C?
In March 2010, we rebalanced our reputation system to favor answers.
While we value good questions (and asking a great question is absolutely an art), we want to explicitly encourage people to provide the best possible answers. Without people interested in providing good answers, the questions are moot. We know that answers have more intrinsic value than questions, and the reputation balance should reflect that.
The question asker already enjoys a substantial benefit beyond reputation gain from upvotes on their question — namely, they get great answers to their question! Thus, the asker shouldn’t need as much reputation gain. …
A few hours ago a user posted Let's clean up low-quality posts with profanity on Stack Overflow. The premise of the discussion was to remove the word Damn from posts as it is considered profanity. However, the community, by method of voting, disagreed with the premise of this post.
However, ...
