Gilles

Paris, France

Age: 32

Moderator♦ on Science Fiction and Fantasy and (pro tempore) on French Language and Usage and Computer Science. I'm also a unix amateur, and a developer with a computer science background and security leanings by trade.

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Reset votes on migrated questions

feature-request migration voting asked Apr 11 '11 at 23:28

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71 votes

Turning off Google search results indirection

google privacy google-search url tracking asked Dec 30 '11 at 1:56

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44 votes

Eeek, the super-mega-expando search box is annoying, part 2

feature-request search asked Aug 11 '11 at 10:21

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36 votes

Please allow expired close/open votes to be re-cast

feature-request vote-to-close expiration asked Jul 21 '11 at 19:44

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35 votes

UI annoyances in the suggested edit review on Stack Overflow

feature-request user-interface suggested-edits review 10k-tools asked Jun 25 '11 at 19:37

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32 votes

Please burninate [software] and similar tags

support stackoverflow tag-synonyms tag-blacklist-request asked Jun 26 '11 at 13:03

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31 votes

Please make the flag response UI consistent, and train moderators

support flagging moderator-tools asked Sep 11 '11 at 11:42

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31 votes

Resources for portable shell programming

shell standard reference portability asked Mar 23 '11 at 21:56

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30 votes

Awarding a bounty to an editor

feature-request bounty community-wiki edit asked Apr 30 '11 at 16:11

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29 votes

Please make the pending suggested edit indicator visible at 5k rep

feature-request stackoverflow suggested-edits notifications privileges asked Apr 10 at 23:29

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