Andrew Barber

Ohio

Age: 41

Community Moderator on Stack Overflow

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I've just been down voted. How should I react?

discussion down-votes faq-proposed asked Feb 5 '12 at 17:06

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36 votes

7 duplicate-code answers with non-disclosed, self-promotional links contained; flag denied

discussion declined-flags duplicate-answers asked Nov 1 '12 at 20:40

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26 votes

Does being a contributor or owner of an open source project count as it being “yours”?

discussion open-source self-promotion asked Nov 20 '12 at 4:12

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23 votes

Did I go wrong flagging this sarcastic answer? If so, where?

discussion flagging specific-question declined-flags not-an-answer asked Apr 26 '12 at 17:25

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17 votes

I hope we'll be keeping the existing “Tools”

discussion review tools asked Oct 12 '12 at 23:07

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14 votes

How do mods earn the Marshal/Deputy badges?

discussion badges moderators flags asked Jan 20 '12 at 17:35

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14 votes

Do I need separate indexes for each type of query, or will one multi-column index work?

sql-server index asked Jan 4 '11 at 18:48

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12 votes

This user seems primarily to be promoting their own blog; What should I do?

discussion answers hyperlinks asked Dec 5 '11 at 14:10

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12 votes

Have auto-complete for @-replies also consider the first alphanumeric-friendly character of someone's name

feature-request comment-replies asked Dec 28 '11 at 21:44

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12 votes

Is it OK to use temporary comments to notify users interested in a post?

discussion comments global-inbox comment-replies asked Jan 13 '12 at 12:57

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Top Answers

Why does 0.ToString(“#.##”) return an empty string instead of 0.00 or at least 0?

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I've just been down voted. How should I react?

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Question edited against my will: no way to either remove it or remove my screen name from it

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How do I choose between Semaphore and SemaphoreSlim?

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Is .NET 4.0 Compatible with Windows XP SP2 or below?

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Why most of the high reputation users on Stack Overflow seem to have asked few questions?

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Can we now discourage the use of and burninate the homework tag?

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Use Visual Studio web.config transform for debugging

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My suggested edit rejected because I pulled in jsFiddle code

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Get full path without filename from path that includes filename

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Are BIG questions OK?

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Why is there no “noob land”?

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Is it generally frowned upon to answer your own question immediately?

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Overhead of try/finally in C#?

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When to use ViewBag, ViewData, or TempData in Mvc3

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Thank you Jeff Atwood!

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How can I undo my bounty?

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Unwanted downvotes to my answers

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Is asking others for a close-vote appropriate?

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I think moderators start to close every single question possible before the election to gain rep

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I've been answer-banned and really can't figure out why or how to fix it

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Why did you block my Stack Overflow account for asking a question here?

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Suggestion for new feature related to self-promoting on-topic answers

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Are web servers/services more prone to fail outside of working hours?

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At a loss how to respond to this question and comment follow-up

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Upvote should block/undo downflagging

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app.config for a class library

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Allow suppression of automatic linking of web addresses

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library package manager for Windows question closed as not constructive

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Withholding upvotes because an answer is “not worth that much”. Frowned upon?

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