In chat, Wikipedia links normally get oneboxed. A while ago, support for secure Wikipedia links (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/) was added: Add support for secure Wikipedia pages to Onebox. However, Wikipedia now uses a new HTTPS URL scheme, the same as the HTTP link except with https: ...

declining -- you can always cast a reopen vote if the post gets closed. Also note that all close votes automatically expire after two days. (and for that matter reopen votes, or any other vote that attempts to reach a threshold -- otherwise, over an absurdly long period of time, say 10 years, e...

Generally when things get deleted, it's for a good reason, and we don't want users to be undeleting them -- there's a reason we require 10k rep to "see" deleted items at all, and only moderators can see deletions in a user's profile.

Declining, because there's already a solution: track the question (favorite it, or leave it open in a tab in your browser) and if it reaches the close threshold, vote to reopen it. Beyond that, the 10k rep tools include a report that will show you recently closed questions questions with clos...

We remove @postowner for the same reason we automatically remove salutations from posts, like Hi Fellow Coders, (Note that this is only removed when the only people talking in comments are you and the post owner.) The @postowner is unnecessary because the post owner is always notified of e...

We've never had an explicit policy around downvoting -- users are free to, if they like, cast all their votes as downvotes. Whether this behavior is desirable or not is another matter. Now, we do discourage downvoting by making downvotes cost -1 rep to the casting voter. But, there's nothing in...

While this is a good idea, I think @name comment notifications gets us close enough to this. In other words, if someone leaves a comment about why your post is wrong, you can now reply to them and they'll be notified. http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/01/new-improved-comments-with-reply/ I th...

Using 14.04 fresh-updated Ubuntu for home PC. I guess I got backdoor and Im trying to find out how its possible. I do not downloaded side apps. Using Ubuntu for browsing most all of the time. So I have 2 version: 1) Compromised updated from Canonical (I know it sounds little paranoid but its p...

I was using my laptop at a Starbucks on a table, and a person was using a laptop on the same table across from me, a couple seats to my side. He flicked some plastic thing across the table towards my laptop. What really freaked me out was he then actually flicked it again further to get it right ...