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Have the necessary community consultations for the AI assist link been carried out, and could individual sites opt out?
I noticed an AI assist link on the side bar
Meta has an AI assist link. Meta also has a policy against the use of generative AI. (note - this appears to have been rolled back only on meta, but it ...
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When can we expect to see the openings for community hires?
3 4 months ago, there was an AMA with Prashanth, Philippe, and Jody. I'm happy to say there's positive movement in some of the items talked about, and while some of the current initiatives need a ...
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Stack Exchange Data Explorer migration to .NET 8
In case you folks missed it, we’re moving Stack Exchange to the cloud! And during that project, we saw an opportunity to leverage SEDE to try some cool containerization work in Linux there and avoid ...
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This [newline] is a [linebreak], right?
On Meta Stack Exchange, we have two tags for the same concept: newline (9 questions, no usage guidance) and linebreak (10 questions, no usage guidance). Both are used for the presence, absence, ...
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Chat link has now been added to left navigation bar
You may have noticed that over the last several weeks, we ran an experiment that added a link to chat on Stack Overflow and some Stack Exchange sites in an attempt to make it more visible to site ...
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Let's [age] up [user-age]
State of affairs
Meta SE has two tags about how old users are:
age (46 questions)
For the age policy of Stack Exchange (a minimum of 16 in the European Union, 13 worldwide, 18 to be a moderator)
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A moderator seems to have edited my name and profile
I just logged in to post a question and noticed that my name has been changed to "Spammer". When I went to my profile for further inspection, I notice that the "About" section has ...
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Is SE aware of the general issues with spam and does the company have any plans to do something about it?
Staff recently replied in a way that implies to me that SE is not aware of the overall problem with spam, but especially the recent wave on Superuser.
The only thing currently keeping up the ...
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Why are we [hosting] this tag?
The web-hosting burnination request brought another tag to my attention, hosting (13 questions, no tag description). This tag is used for questions about image hosting, web hosting, using SO to host Q&...
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What is this [web-hosting]?
While burninating the web tag, I came across the web-hosting tag (9 questions, no tag description). This tag is similarly used in a confusing manner. Most of its questions are either about where to ...
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What should we do for the tag wiki of [pre] tag?
We have a pre tag on this site.
This tag was previously used in this question: What is a pre vote? , but a user deleted this tag and mentioned that this tag does lack a tag wiki. (see here)
I have ...
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Dramatic increase in New User accounts - why?
I've noticed a big uptick in "new user" account creation on Bicycles:
Zooming in, we can see a cliff between 5 and 12 June 2024.
Before that, new users were steady at 6-15 a day. After ...
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New tag for the internal image hosting
Now that imgur will soon no longer host our images, the imgur tag would become obsolete.
However, I doubt the new upload process, that would host the images internally in Stack Exchange, would work ...
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Cookie consent going down hill
SE's cookie reject seems to have just got a lot worse.
I now have to both opt-out, and then reject "legitimate interest". But that is not enough; I have to then go through all the vendors, ...
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Is [spoonfeeding] a meta-tag? Is it really a relevant meta meme?
I added this spoonfeeding to a question I posted a few moments ago, before that question, it had four questions closed.
I looked at the FAQ about the Meta Memes, and spoonfeeding is not included.
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