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Colorado is in the West - Mountain region in the Census ( https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Census_Regions_and_D... ). It isn't part of the breadbasket / midlands…

That rule is in place because the stack overflow crowd doesn’t want to debate it and keeping it useful for anyone else is too much work.

The distinction between the two is described in the help/on-topic page ( https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic - be sure to follow the links) and vario…

The workings of the triage queue are described in https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/278380/help-us-test... > Behind the scenes, a "quality score" is calc…

While that may be making that user feel better, it will frustrate every one who is looking for a good question to answer and sees something without any down votes... and sees it to be a poor question.…

Stack Overflow had a mentoring experiment a few months ago - https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/357198/mentorship-r... and while it worked in providing people who were…

Stack Overflow had a bad experience with excessively popular questions as described in https://stackoverflow.blog/2012/01/31/the-trouble-with-popul... They gave it a tr…

In many cases, up votes on Stack Overflow have no more significance than a like on facebook. The problem of "same answer repeated" becomes contrary to the "find the answer rather than s…

Down votes on questions are free. Down votes on answers cost 1 rep. You need 125 rep to be able to cast a down vote (votes for people and anonymous users with less than 125 are recorded in an anonymo…

There is a belief at SO corporate that Stack Overflow is not a social media site. Its a place for questions and answers. In that view, adding features that allow a person to focus on another person …

It also took a significant amount of community curation to maintain the utility of that. As the communities that tried to maintain the posts have found that it didn't work well, those posts beca…

The way to get more feedback is to reduce the load of the individual in community moderation. Try going to a tag... lets say Java. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/…

The code is ideally a "this is the code that fixes the problem" and its done. Once there's an answer, you don't often get a dozen more answers with slightly different code. Librar…

Only if that's what you want SO to be. But how often do you find a question on how to exclude a particular artifact from a maven configuration on Quora? or finding the cause of a particular comp…

But they're there because you can't . I remember the days of Usenet and the various news groups for help. You help a person with a question and then go on to read something else... and th…

I think its more granular than experts and beginners where the friction is. There's friction with different visions of the site and what it should be. Realizing that this is very stereotyped.…

Hacker News, Reddit, Quora, mailing lists, google hangouts, irc, slack or discord channels. They're still around. They're smaller... and by being smaller they are more useful. What Stack Ov…

They do... barely. From https://stackoverflow.com/help/deleted-answers > Answers that do not fundamentally answer the question may be removed. This includes answers that are:…

While you are suggesting something stronger (1 rep for with a comment and 1+N rep for without a comment), give https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/276440 a read. The short version o…

> It's also interesting that other Stack Exchange communities are not that strict. Its a matter of scale and the ratio of the amount of time people are willing to help to the incoming question…

One of the articles that helped influence Stack Overflow's design is A Group is its Own Worst Enemy by Clay Shirkey ( http://www.shirky.com/writings/herecomeseverybody/g…

This is the topic of the book "Speed of Dark" by Elizabeth Moon - the self identity of someone who has high-functioning autistism as an adult and the possibility of having it cured. This als…

It still is getting posts, though few and far between. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/alt.sysadmin.recover... . Thats an aspect of the "if no one is there, n…

I (hazily) recall at sgi there was a news-bug tracker gateway. New post? New bug. Reply to post? Add a comment. This was also how sgi exported its bugs to partners. sgi.bugs.legato was a feed that leg…

> It sounds like you're not the type of adventurous person who'd care for this in the first place? Your mind went, in a leap of fear, from "tastes of sea weed" to "box of s…

The "what is Japanese candy like" can be answered by going to ITSUGAR and getting some... well... Japanese candy ( https://itsugar.com/crave-japan-blind-box.html )... or Ama…

UW Madison charges a little bit more for international cs out of state. https://mbo.wiscweb.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/194/20... The additional surcharge is…

I recall a story told to me many years back of him at a (U2?) concert where he was up in the upper deck. He would make a paper airplane out of the $2 bill and throw it. He would watch it with binocul…

An estimate is not a single number. Rather, an estimate says “it may take 1h if everything goes well, it may take 16h if things go bad.” This is then followed up with “at 1h, I’ll update with either …

You might be interested in reading about Prince Rupert's cube. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16399079 In particular from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki…