Charles

Eugene, OR

http://careers.stackoverflow.com/charlescapps

I'm a web application developer turned IT manager with fifteen years of experience building everything from comprehensive ERP systems to 50-LOC chat rooms.

I'm a proud member of the New Tag Deletionist Cabal.

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Careless review upvotes are actively contributing to the quality problem, not correcting it

discussion voting review review-abuse community-standards asked Dec 12, 2012 at 9:01

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74 votes

A user ragequit after bountying me all his rep, and I'm kind of creeped out by it

discussion bounty asked Apr 5, 2013 at 20:21

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46 votes

Please prevent creation of tags that could trigger the IIS file extension filter

bug status-completed tags asked Apr 11, 2012 at 16:36

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24 votes

Add periods (".") to the list of things that the tag picker ignores

feature-request tags tag-synonyms asked Dec 5, 2012 at 21:15

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22 votes

Improve SE OpenID logout security and user experience on shared or public machines

feature-request security logout stackexchange-openid asked Jan 17, 2012 at 23:06

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20 votes

Please expand the "you only posted code" filter to consider backticks

bug status-completed new-users code-formatting asked Oct 9, 2011 at 7:11

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17 votes

Number of comment flags always equals number of upvotes?

bug status-completed 10k-tools comment-flags asked May 21, 2011 at 7:24

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16 votes

Is DRBD the only viable block replication solution for Linux?

linux replication block-device asked May 30, 2012 at 3:22

serverfault.com

16 votes

Diamond moderator rollbacks can resurrect blacklisted tags

bug status-bydesign tags rollbacks tag-blacklist asked Dec 19, 2013 at 5:15

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15 votes

Do community and moderator deletes penalize in the same way that self-deletes do?

support deleted-questions post-ban vote-to-delete asked Dec 11, 2012 at 22:13

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