Meta Stack Exchange Weekly Newsletter - Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Top new questions this week: Announcement: Keyboard shortcuts are now integrated into the site Originally we had implemented keyboard shortcuts as a user script. We have now finally made the change to have them integrated into the site. When you go to the "preferences" page on your profile, … discussion user-interface keyboard-shortcuts   asked by balpha 48 votes answered by Vote to Close 8 votes Weird, spammy message I never sent has appeared in my "sent" box I've received email confirmation from careers.stackoverflow.com that an application message--supposedly from me--has been received by an employer. The email confirmation went to one of my email … feature-request support careers user-accounts   asked by Maurice Rickard 35 votes answered by Martijn Pieters 17 votes Does Stack Exchange have an official policy on honoring "Do Not Track" browser settings? I know that everyone in the world today wants to know pretty much everything (possibly more than one's spouse) about everyone. Does Stack Exchange have an official policy on honoring Do Not Track … discussion privacy terms-of-service analytics tracking   asked by devnull 28 votes Is there any support for mass link editing? My old blog is no more. Existing links will (slowly) give a 404. I'm working on getting a new domain structure which I control, so that in the future I can put my own redirects in place etc, but I … support edits hyperlinks   asked by Jon Skeet 25 votes answered by Nick Craver 34 votes If automatic community wiki conversion is gone, why do the confusing messages still exist? Now that posts can't be automatically converted to community wiki, it makes sense to just ditch all those annoying messages for "why" a post got converted in the first place. The code for selecting … feature-request community-wiki revisions-list   asked by animuson 19 votes Why does @StackStatus follow Ryan Seacrest? I couldn't help but notice that the @StackStatus twitter account follows @RyanSeacrest. @StackStatus provides status updates for the Stack Exchange network along with stackstatus.net, so there … discussion fun twitter   asked by Santa Claus 17 votes answered by Oded 27 votes Can we burninate the [stack-exchange] tag? It looks like the stack-exchange tag is a holdover from the pre-split days when Meta Stack Overflow was the Meta for the entire network. It has over 1200 uses, so it's too big to clean up manually. It … discussion support meta burninate-request   asked by Bill the Lizard 14 votes answered by Travis J 7 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: New Header Chat Link In the new header could we please move the chat link back to where it was? (One click away) As a daily frequent to the JavaScript room that's the one link I'd love to have visible 100% of the time. … discussion feature-request status-declined top-bar   asked by Sterling Archer 19 votes answered by Václav Zeman 0 votes How to train your growing community to self-moderate? Two years ago I accepted the post of pro-tem moderators on Computer Science. At that time, and that's true for any new beta SE site, there were little to no users with enough reputation to moderate. … discussion feature-request moderator-tools moderation community   asked by Raphael 52 votes answered by retailcoder 21 votes Can you answer these? Can multiple edits send an [on-hold] question to Reopen queue more than once? I'd like to have this remark by animuson confirmed or denied: This is unverified, but I remember reading somewhere that an edit can only bump a question into the Reopen Votes queue once. Further … support review edits vote-to-reopen on-hold   asked by 900 sit-ups a day 4 votes Clarify the "8 hour delay" self-answer message to discourage self-answering with edits or comments It's not uncommon to find new users editing or commenting on their questions with something along the lines of "Update: I solved it by Xing the Y with Z" instead of posting their solution as a … feature-request self-answer   asked by AirThomas 10 votes Is there a way (for a moderator) to search for posts that were deleted as Spam? When site users are on the ball they should be spam flagging posts so they get removed from the front-page and eventually deleted. All this happens without moderator involvement. However, sometimes … support search moderator-tools spam   asked by JonW 8 votes

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