Questions tagged [rules]
For questions about written and unwritten rules of the Stack Overflow network. The rules can be found in the help center, or sometimes in posts by ♦ moderators.
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What is the reason of bumping review limit up to 30 in First Posts, Late Answers, Triage etc.? [duplicate]
While reviewing in Triage, First Post and Late Answer, I have noticed that its allowing me to review 30 posts in each category. I never saw this before.
However, as far I know:
Users are limited to ...
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Is it allowed to continually up vote someone's answers and questions?
I have been noticing random upvotes on all my questions and answers (a large increase in them on all my questions and answers, most of them being older posts).
While I should be happy, I guess, I am ...
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Can a protected question be off-topic? [duplicate]
I start by saying that I just want to understand better how SO works. I don't want to sound provocative to the slightest.
A stellar and protected question is the "Definitive C++ book Guide and List".
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Copyrights for answers
So, I'm writing some code as an application project to a high school, because, who needs videos or Powerpoints when you can design a website as your submission. Anyways, I've been getting debugging ...
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Scope of permitted questions? [duplicate]
Being new to Stack Overflow, I'm not entirely familiar with what is or is not permitted.
I'm in the process of developing a web application for a non-profit (at no charge) and thought it might be ...
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Streaming Stack Overflow
There are communities of people who watch other people program (e.g. Twitch).
Imagine one would ask and answer questions or do review queues on a live stream.
This could bring a lot of attention to ...
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What to do when a high-rep user is willfully breaking site rules/meta consensus?
AFAIK we have both a behavioural rule (https://stackoverflow.com/help/behavior), quote:
Do not use signature, taglines, or greetings.
Every post you make is already “signed” with your standard user ...
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User accounts that are blatant ads for escort services
I was searching for an account and typed "Russian" into the search. I noticed a few results with names like "russian-escort-shanghai", "A-Russianescortmalaysia", etc...
So I then searched "escort" ...
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Questions from manuals
Maybe it has been already asked. Anyway, is there any policy how to answer the question which can be precisely answered by copying and paste paragraphs from a manual. Is the link only enough or I ...
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what is the right way to get question on top of list again [duplicate]
this might sound against the policy of SO, but I am looking for an acceptable way by which if a question has gone down the list without any answers, how can we pull that back up ?
There are times ...
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Delete question with upvoted answer
Suppose someone answers a question and get some up vote in that answer. Now the OP decides to delete his/her question. What will happen to the answer and the reputation gained from the answer? Will it ...
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Cross-posting by user and removed question by moderator on SO in Russian. Does our SO has same rules?
Recently I found this question on Meta ruSO. I've seen some posts on Meta SO and on Meta StackExchange, BUT that question was removed by moderator with the reason (translation):
If you will still ...
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Past vs. Present [duplicate]
My question is: Have the rules of Stack Overflow changed at any point since its creation?
I ask this because, prior to joining SO a few months ago, I researched and Googled several of the questions I ...
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Do new users actually read the rules [closed]
I know when I first joined I didn't. It left me helpless, and I ended up going through 3 question bans. I have been trying to do better since, and have noticed the decrease in quality all the long ...
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Can I offer money on an external site for somebody to answer my question on Stack Exchange?
I haven't yet accumulated the reputation to post a bounty to a question, but as its important to me, I'd like to offer some sort of incentive to draw in an answer for it.
I was wondering if it would ...
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