Questions tagged [users]
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Is ServerFault doomed? Not if we all vote more!
To sum up a lot of the threads and comments on Meta.SF: We're doooomed!
That seems to be the consensus. Look at some of the answers and comments in Why the major FAQ/help change? and Can we do ...
user62491
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Why SF is failing - the dismal future of ServerFault
This is a Canonical Question about the scope of Server Fault and the attitude of the community.
This is in response to Questions to ask the SE staff regarding the future of ServerFault
Why am I ...
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Can we do anything to change the dynamic of the site?
This came up in relation to the upcoming mod election, e.g. Dennis' question here, and tombull89's and Iain's comments here, but I think the discussion of this shouldn't be limited to "what do the the ...
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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
MadHatter
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Is this new SF user posting too-many/too-poor questions
Someone quite new popped up on 30th December on SF and since then has posted 12 new questions in the last 9 hours, 25 in the last day and 30 in the last 6 days since the 30th.
Many if not all of ...
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How is Server Fault doing as of late 2011?
I'm not a heavy Server Fault user, but it seems to me that it's growing a lot slower than other sites. The front page is often full of questions with hardly any upvotes, and I often find old questions ...
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I would like the URLs to your blogs
I'm looking to compile a list of blogs that users here write as I'd like to follow them. If you are an active member and want to share your sites to be followed, please post them below.
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Link back to user's parent-site profile in Meta
Since there's no "accounts" tab on SE 2.0 Meta pages, there's no link to the user's parent-site profile on the user's Meta profile page.
Please add a link somewhere so I don't develop callouses ...
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Are questions from high-rep users more valuable?
...and, if so, can we do anything to get more of them?
This question mutated a few times while I wrote it... Originally I was going to say that the lack of questions from high-rep users was a ...
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just registered in ServerFault but my user pages said that im member for 24 days
I just registered in ServerFault but my user page said that im member for 24 days.
is it a known bug ?
adinochestva
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User name history
It's a minor thing, but I'm wondering if there's any way to see what previous names a person has used.
I know that this guy previously used what I assume is his real name, and I think that before ...
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Recent reputation calculation bug
Not a big deal, it just displays wrong from time to time as seen in the picture:
It should be 59, but shows 58.
Update:
Perhaps this is my mistake, looking back now I see there was another downvote ...
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How to add a comment with a referral to the user whose username has a space inside the string? (@)
Lets say an user "John Doe" commented under some answer post.
How to write a comment that will contain a referral to John Doe's username? (referral by using the @ symbol).
I've tried:
@(John Doe)
@...
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