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company January 19, 2011

Trilogy 2011 Elections Begin

After vetting the new, improved election process on math.stackexchange.com we’re ready for the next big step: 2011 community moderator elections on Stack Overflow, Server Fault, and Super User. If you’ve ever thought to yourself, “Hey, I’d make a great community moderator!” — now is your chance to nominate yourself: serverfault.com/election superuser.com/election stackoverflow.com/election Don’t worry —…
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community January 17, 2011

Real Questions Have Answers

In Good Subjective, Bad Subjective, we made a pretty solid first stab at defining a constructive subjective question, one that I’ve been happy with so far. Constructive subjective questions: inspire answers that explain “why” and “how”. tend to have long, not short, answers. have a constructive, fair, and impartial tone. invite sharing experiences over opinions.…
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Creative Commons Data Dump Jan ’11

IMPORTANT: This torrent was originally uploaded incomplete. Our apologies. If you downloaded it before ~ 8 pm Pacific on January 16th, 2011, you should re-download it now. The correct size is > 3 GB; anything smaller is incorrect. The latest version of the Stack Exchange Creative Commons Data Dump is now available. This reflects all…
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community January 14, 2011

Improved Flagging

We’ve had a Craigslist-inspired post flagging system in place since the middle of 2009. But we haven’t improved it much since then, and given the recent influx of traffic, we are struggling to keep up while educating question askers and educating answerers. There’s no way even the most avid community moderator could possibly keep tabs…
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community January 12, 2011

Twitter Question Feeds for Stack Exchange

If you ever listened to our sadly defunct podcast, you probably heard about Twitter … a lot. I’ve been a longtime user (since 2007) and I was always surprised how much utility I got out of the thing. Even Joel Spolsky, a longtime skeptic of the service, is a believer now. We decided to create…
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community January 11, 2011

Tag Favorites and Tag Subscriptions

There is now a small, informative tooltip that appears when you hover your mouse on a tag. The primary goal is to make it easier to follow a particular tag: Click subscribe to receive a daily email summary of new questions in this tag. Click again to unsubscribe. Of course, every email we send will…
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community January 8, 2011

How to Say Thanks in an Answer

After successfully implementing assistance for new askers, we’d like to do the same thing for new answerers. So we’ve been analyzing characteristics of answers by new users to determine what makes an answer fundamentally good or bad. One strong predictor of a poor quality answer may surprise you: the presence of the words thank or…
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background January 4, 2011

Welcome Valued Associate Nick Craver

I’m pleased to announce that we’re kicking off 2011 with some new blood on the team, starting with Nick Craver. Nick will be working remotely for us from North Carolina. Nick is an old friend of Jarrod Dixon, so he comes highly recommended. Jarrod always told me how great Nick was, and although I implicitly…
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Welcome Valued Associate Rebecca Chernoff

I’m pleased to announce that we’re kicking off 2011 with even more new blood on the team, including Rebecca Chernoff. Rebecca will be working remotely for us from Missouri, in a hybrid role of technical evangelist and community coordinator. If you’ve spent any time at all on our network — and in particular on our…
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Stack Overflow Gives Back 2010

In 2009, Stack Overflow LLC had three employees, and three primary sites — Stack Overflow, Server Fault, and Super User. Plus our careers site at careers.stackoverflow.com In 2010, we incorporated as Stack Overflow Internet Services with venture capital funding. We also grew to twenty-four employees, and 38 primary sites (of which, to be fair, 19…
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community December 20, 2010

Subscribe to Tags via Email

You can now subscribe to a tag (or set of tags) and get an email when new questions arrive. To begin, visit the Tag Sets page on stackexchange.com [ed note: You can no longer select tags across sites], and either create a new tag set, or find a cool tag set someone else already put…
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