Meta Stack Exchange Weekly Newsletter - Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Top new questions this week: Tag badges are being awarded incorrectly On Stack Overflow, I have 428 java questions answered with a total score of 775 as of the writing of this post. However, I was just awarded the Java tag badge. It seems that this is happening to a ... bug status-completed badges tag-badges tag-score   asked by durron597 38 votes answered by Jarrod Dixon 21 votes Give extra close votes, only accessible via /review With question and answer up and down votes, one has so many they may cast per vote period. From What are the limits on how I can cast, change, and retract votes? : Thirty post votes per day ... discussion feature-request review vote-to-close   asked by MichaelT 32 votes answered by tchrist 13 votes 🍌 count is wrong in "More to go" for comments When you go to add a comment, the text incorrectly reads: enter at least 15 characters However, it does not enforce this, as only 8 characters are required. This can be readily demonstrated by ... bug comments unicode   asked by tchrist 27 votes answered by Jon Ericson 8 votes It's all Google in SEDE now When logging in with Firefox (no repro on Chrome or IE11) on SEDE the login page shows only Google icons. I know something had to be fixed due to end of the support of Googles OpenId but this is a ... bug status-completed data-explorer google-openid   asked by rene 23 votes answered by Nick Craver 21 votes Will the stackexchange.com network profile get an update that corresponds with the new profile? Upon visiting my network profile, I noticed it was not updated in the major profile update. Is it scheduled to get a face-lift as well? As a sidenote, it would be pretty awesome to see the sum of ... discussion profile-page network-profile   asked by Carrie Kendall 22 votes answered by Jaydles 10 votes The accepted answer concept is not useful for sites that are not about problem solving Stack Overflow was the first SE site, and many mechanisms were designed for SO and not necessarily for all the different sites that came after it. The "accepted answer" concept is one of those ... discussion feature-request accepted-answer sorting   asked by Mad Scientist 19 votes Data Explorer forgotten me - new account? NOTE: My account seems to be linking back to the original. I guess that makes this issue closed? I had many (hundreds?) of queries in Data Explorer, and with the new google log in, they are all ... support bug data-explorer   asked by rolfl 16 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: Shortcut or button for copying posted code from Stack Overflow I might just be lazy, but do you ever find it tiresome to select all the source code from a large post on SO to copy it? I would like a feature, possibly a Firefox extension but preferably a ... discussion feature-request source-code   asked by Steve 156 votes answered by IAbstract 87 votes Ban LMGTFY (let me google that for you) links I've just asked a question on Stack Overflow which was a prime candidate for googling. I admit it was a poor question and with a little bit of research I would have found the answer. It annoyed me ... discussion feature-request status-completed hyperlinks lmgtfy   asked by John Nolan 177 votes answered by devinb 223 votes Can you answer these? Specify "unlikely to be fixed/salvagable via editing" in the flag dialogue The explanation for should be closed in the new flag dialogue for questions reads (boldface mine): This question is completely unclear, incomplete, overly-broad, primarily opinion-based or is not ... feature-request wording flag-dialog   asked by Wrzlprmft 6 votes Don't force sync with my oldest account on my network profile I tend to put information on my profiles that's relevant for that particular site. For example, my profile on Stack Overflow says what languages and technologies I'm familiar with and currently ... feature-request network-profile profile-sync   asked by starsplusplus 7 votes Add "Conflicted Edit" to Edit Stats My Edit stats as seen in edit histories are as follows. krisdestruction had 77 edit suggestions approved, and 18 edit suggestions rejected However most of my rejected edits are due to conflicted ... feature-request rejected-edits   asked by krisdestruction 8 votes

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