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How should, if at all, personal talk with an expert be sourced?

In an answer to the question A bracelect protecting from radiation? I sourced to a corresponding I had with one of the people related to the matter. What is the right way to give the source to such …

7 mins ago
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External search options box positioned strangely on search page

On the search tips page, it looks like the content div isn't wide enough for the text and the external searches box to sit side-by-side like they do on other sites. This is what is looks like on ...

14 mins ago
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Diablo 3 Gems - Quick To Answer

Ah, this seems to explain what I have been seeing with people posting a very quick one sentence answer and then expanding that answer through edits.. Might this particular gem be a bit of a way to ...

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Community Wiki — Where is it?

I've seen numerous questions answered with comments in the form "This should be a community-wiki question". This seems to imply that there is a list of such "community-wiki" questions somewhere. Is …

30 mins ago
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Auto rollback any edits made by a spammer when his account get nuked

Many times spammers don't just post new answers (or questions) with their spam but also edit existing posts to insert their spam. Usually two high rep members will notice the spam and reject the ...

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White vs Brown adipose tissue

I have been looking for a reference that compares and contrasts brown and white adipose tissue (in humans) in a concise (preferably tabular, but that's not completely necessary) manner. I haven't ...

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Migrated question - user mismatched

Take this question as an example. A question was migrated to Money, while the user wasn't active on the site. The user followed the question, but it wasn't matched to him. How can this be resolved?

57 mins ago
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Suggest move to Code Review?

Should Code Review be added to the list of sites to suggest to move a question to when marking as off-topic? If it's not already there simply because of limited space in the dialog, how about bumping …

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Diablo 3 is coming - train with us!

Diablo III is here! Therefore the training period has ended, and it's time to do battle for real. Winners for this contest have been selected. Congratulations to: fredley for asking What is …

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I can't up vote questions; the box doesn't appear when I hover on questions; tag autocompletion doesn't work

It seems like various things are broken for me on all stack exchange sites. (Weirdly, the only one I've found that works is this very site; I have problems with all the others.) Here is a list of the …

1 hour ago
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does serial undownvote script kick in after duplicate accounts merge?

There is a user who managed to get sort of protection provided by the "serial" script so that their posts regularly get a portion of undownvotes when script kicks in (Reputation tab in the user ...

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Should we create a “professional primers series” of questions?

A recent question asked for a tutorial on bank loans, a reasonably sophisticated and niche topic for quants for which it's not so easy to find a good introduction. In fact, I worked on a quantitative …

1 hour ago
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Are we too nice to high rep mods?

In the wake of this question (check the comments). I know there have been questions raised on meta about being more friendly to low reps. But are we too friendly for high reps? I was wondering what …

1 hour ago
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Warn when downvoting newbies

I'd like an extra message box when clicking "down" on answers and questions of people which have less than 100 points (or any other sensible definition of "newbie"; I think the site owners should be …

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Comment links on review page lead to nowhere, when they exist

If you go to /review and click "review question" it expands nicely into the larger post giving you the option to vote/comment/link etc.. Clicking on a comment's timestamp will take you to that ...

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Does it make sense to keep the tag 'jobs'?

The tag 'jobs' seems to be used a lot for questions around the role of UX, skills and career-development (http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/jobs). This tag might even encourage these type …

1 hour ago
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Auto-Refresh sets the “asked at” timestamp to 12 hours

When a page is auto refreshed, or it updates itself on Stack Overflow, the shown time is wrong. It always shows "12 hours ago," instead of actual time. If I refresh the page manually, it shows the ...

1 hour ago
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What is appropriate use of the 'Not an answer' flag?

Recently I've had some discussions with @whuber about what constitutes appropriate use of the 'Not an answer' flag where I was referred to this thread: ...

1 hour ago
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Topicality of questions about printing

The following question recently appeared: What binding and paper makes for good reading? The question is almost entirely concerned with how to bind and print a self-published book. As such, it has …

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Community Promotion Ads - 2012

Alright. We may have horribly failed to actually do a half-based Community Ads system last year. Well, this year, since we start in December to work on the actual year. Since it's more of a biseasonal …

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Is our FAQ text too exclusive?

Our tagline in the FAQ is as follows: User Experience - Stack Exchange is for user experience researchers and designers. I'm wondering if we aren't getting as many Information Architecture and …

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How to refer to Answerer when responding to a comment?

When I respond to a comment that's not the immediate predecessor of my comment, I'd like to include the commenter's @ handle so it's clear who I am responding to. However, since you are constrained …

1 hour ago
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I am going to try and post one question a day for one week

This isn't a question, but more so a public commitment to try and up the number of questions that this site has. I commit to do this for one week, starting today, and I will try to keep the quality of …

1 hour ago
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2012 Moderator Election - Town Hall Chat Digest

The following is a "digest" version of the 2012 Moderator Election Town Hall Chat. The format, as described on Meta Stack Overflow, is one answer to this question for every question asked in the Town …

1 hour ago
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Should we encourage people to say which variant of Spanish are using?

I see that a lot of questions of general or daily use of Spanish can have different answers depending on the region or country and most of these answers can be correct. However, depending on the ...

1 hour ago
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How do high-reputation SF users solve their own problems?

I have viewed some profiles of SF users who have high reputations. One thing I have noticed that they have asked only a few questions. Some Profile links are given below: Evan Anderson Iain ...

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Is photo restoration on topic?

(This is spawned from: What is the best way to remove texture from a scanned textured photo paper?) The question is pretty simple: Is photo restoration on topic on this site, or are we only about …

1 hour ago
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Toolbar missing with IE8

When I access gis.se using IE8 from behind a corporate firewall, the toolbar is missing. Update: I've installed firefox 4.0 and get same results. I do get an error code in IE8: Webpage error ...

2 hours ago
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How to add dowload buttons and app icons

I would like to know how to add a Ubuntu Software Center download button like in this link Looking for a notes management software (the button for the accepted answer) Screenshot: And also the …

2 hours ago
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What questions about flora are in scope?

A question of mine about tree identification, What's the difference between a redwood and a sequoia? was migrated to the gardening and landscaping section. While identification of plants is certainly …

2 hours ago
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