User 1633 "Dail" I believe has been quite active recently on the site, but he doesn't not seem to be willing to understand our rules and the way we work. According to his profile, he asked 10 questions, accepted no answers, and has seen 5 questions closed. Today, first thing in the morning, I n...

Downvotes used to cost a few reputations points (2 I think I remember), but since a while, I can downvote without any penalty. Has that been added to our site since it's in beta or is it a bug?

Joel Spolsky mentions in podcast #30 that he has asked true experts in quantitative finance what they think about this site, and they tell him that the questions are all "really beginner questions" and that "you would get fired for not already knowing this at my firm." Does the presence of these...

Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky mention in podcast #30 that they would like to contact true experts in quantitative finance to evaluate this site, perhaps showing them 10 sample questions and paying them an honorarium to give their recommendations (and possibly contribute better answers). However, t...

Lauren Gundrum, member of CHAOS, has offered to help any interested students and teachers with starting a pizza ambassadors program to help get the word out about this site. Here's the description from Physics.SE: StackExchange is looking for students and teachers who might be interested i...

The site has a large number of language-specific tags with only a handful of questions in each. For example, see java javascript c++ j-language q-language fsharp Would anyone be opposed to merging all of these, as well as "programming-languages" into a single "programming" tag? Since this s...