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Increase of spam bots on edits
The spambots seem to target a particular URL, so I am guessing somebody finds a target edit URL and adds to the list of sites to be a damn nuisance on.
Locking the post in question seems to have stop …
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Favorites, but no upvotes
I think that's because these are two separate features. My guess is they considered connecting these two things and decided it wasn't worth the added complexity. Or another argument is that it is for …
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Can we have a feature which will enforce users to add comments after down voting a question ...
Here are the links to some of the discussion (ad nauseam) that has occurred on meta.stackoverflow.com.
Encouraging people to explain down-votes
Why not allow downvote only with at least an anonymous …
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Vote to Mark as Answer
There is a similar functionality, just upvote the correct answer. This answer will then bubble to the top. On StackExchange, the definition of “unanswered” is “questions with no upvoted or accepted an …
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why cant we see who down/upvoted you?
I think the reason the system was designed this way; so that you don't get to see who down-voted you; is because otherwise it would result in tit-for-tat down-voting and other retaliatory behaviour. T …
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Can we block a SE user from looking at our profile and answering on our question?
If you are getting answers that you think are offensive, noise or spam, flag them for moderator attention. If we see the same user repeatedly doing this we will take appropriate action.
If someone is …
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Mutually exclusive tags
"Foundation & Enterprise" is surely redundant - we should get rid of both tags.
"2007 & 2010" - might make sense if the question applies only to these two specific versions, although I suspect they s …
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Broken links pointing to sharepointoverflow.com
I think this may require manual editing, unfortunately. I am not aware of an automated way of doing this.
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Spelling check for tags
I think it would be difficult to come up with a comprehensive spell checker that could keep up with technical terms and product names.
The tags are basically a managed folksonomy. I think the best sp …
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Shouldn't the questions tagged 'best-practices' be marked as Community Wiki?
The Community Wiki definition is all about collaborative editing, and I think the idea is mainly intended for situations where there is no clear or definitive answer. Some "best practices" questions d …
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How to mark all responses as correct which collectively answer a question?
As you say, only one answer can be marked as accepted. For the type of general question you describe, the StackExchange way of dealing with these is to make them a Community Wiki.