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I asked about the efficiency of these filters and was served with this question as an answer: The Efficacy Of Stack Overflow's Question Title Filter tl;dr - the question title check is pretty effe …

No, you can't force people to do those things. People already get a ton of information when they're posting on the site for the first time. Let me refresh your memory: Trying to force someone to r …

The ability to get help on the site without the need for an account is crucial in my eyes. I agree that it is very likely, that a lot of bad content originates from unregistered users. However, I fou …

You can join a chatroom whenever you like. What has been said in the room when you were not there can later be read anyway. If someone is online at the time, has no relevance. You can leave them a me …

Having the buttons there provides the option for a learning experience. You click them once (just for fun, of course), and it instantly tells you that you can't do that. Lesson learned, all is good. …

I have to say, I don't remember any instance of LMGTFY that uses that exact website/term. So I'm having a hard time seeing the problem. However, I fully agree that the site/the phenomenon are a rude …

This is somewhat of an unfortunate circumstance. You can't approve already existing suggested edits, yet, you've been shown a post that had a suggested edit pending. In general, this is intended beha …

The validity of your post is checked once you try to post it. There is no real reason to do the check at a different time and show you an indicator that might simply be incorrect at the time where th …

Bounties are meant to attract attention not just to increase ones rep.

When you found out something interesting and you think that it may benefit others then you would usually pose a hypothetical question and then answer it with an answer including the information you ga …

Just FYI, if you're looking for a one-hand only solution, try this: The link itself is also a valid link to the same address.

To my understanding, the only way to affect the selection of questions to review is through the filter functionality. However, there is no way to exclude a specific tag.

Regarding your related question, the engine automatically deletes abandoned accounts. When is it safe to declare an account abandoned? We came up with these two rules of thumb. If.. the …

The reason we see that other people already put a close vote in, is to draw our attention to a possible issue with the question. This is intentional and helpful. It allows us to track down problemati …

Well, I really liked your approach of adding a warning label to the post. It just confused me on first sight, as I assumed the spammer itself included the warning. Which would have been quite weird. …