seems like a shameless copy of Stack Overflow. I could not find any good information about the site and it looks to be everything but legitimate. Is the Stack&nbsp;Exchange team aware of this site and allowing it to copy site content?  Or perhaps is there nothing one can do about such sites?
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of Stack Overflow, all content posted on Stack Exchange sites by their users (i.e. you wonderful people) has been provided to the whole universe under . For my fellow non-lawyers, that license basically means:   Anyone can use any Stack Exchange posts at any time without having to ask for permission Making money off of the copied content is permitted You don't even have to copy stuff from here verbatim; you can just use it as a starting point and make whatever edits you want There are just two rules you have to follow:   You have to provide . Simple links to the original post and author info are just fine. You have to  and allow other people to use your content, as long as they follow these very same rules. How meta!    (If you ever forget any of that, and want to refresh your memory, the license info is linked to in the footer of every page.)  There are, in fact, a lot of people who republish varying amounts of our content for assorted reasons. Unfortunately, there are some Stack Content Republishers Attributing Poorly and/or Excelling at Ranking (SCRAPERs, for short).  In this context, "attributing poorly" means any use that doesn't follow our attribution rules or make any other reasonable attempt at give credit. This can get pretty egregious; I've seen SCRAPERs that not only don't link back to SE originals, but also use fake author info and post dates to make it harder to find originals. By "excelling at ranking," I'm referring to copycat sites that end up higher in Google results than the original SE sites do for the same content. That's not necessarily wrong, but in some cases, it indicates inappropriate SEO hackery.  So, the question is: what can you do if you spot a SCRAPER?
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What does stackexchange mean? I have checked out this  to read about the Stack Exchange Network.
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I recently sent an email to SE Team, offering the idea to allow "tips" on Stack Exchange sites. They advised me to post it here, since SE is maintained and build by the community.   Below is an email text, that sent to SE Team, and I would like to hear what the great Stack Exchange community is thinking about allowing Dogecoin "tips" on SE sites:     Hello SE Team,        It's a first time I'm writing to this email, and the first thing that I want, is to thank you for a great service and site you're providing!   You have a great community sites, that helps me each day multiple   times and actually, I don't know what would I do, if Stack Overflow   would not exists. And I'm sure I am not alone with my feelings.    Again, great work and thank you!        Now for a business :)   I'm sure geniuses like you, heard about Bitcoin like cryptocurrencies, and Dogecoin especially   (). In case of not, Dogecoin is an alternative to   Bitcoin currency that grows very fast and has a huge community.   Dogecoin exists less then two months, but community counts almost 70k   members on reddit ().        What I think, it would be a great thing, if it would be possible to make Dogecoin "tips" on Stack Exchange sites. Not just up-voting a   good answers, but send some "tip" to person who helps to solve the   problems. I don't think it's something hard to implement, since there   already exists the tipping bot that works on Reddit, Twitter,  Youtube   and more.        In my opinion, such service can be as useful for Dogecoin as for Stack Overflow. As a beta, it could be used on    and if it proves yourself, it can   move further for other SE sites.        Thank you, hope you will like it and we will see Dogecoin on Stack Exchange soon!   Regards,   Alex Danilov     Edit: After receiving some comments, I think it important to state that Dogecoin is not a "real currency" and do not want to be. It is a "virtual tipping value". As huge Dogecoin community states: 1 Dodge = 1 Doge :)
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Meta Stack Exchange seems to have different rules and user behavior than the "regular" Stack Exchange sites.  How is it different?    Individual questions answered below:                Related
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I ran into this site:  But I can't find it on here:  Is it even an &quot;official&quot; Stack Exchange project?
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I am new to Stack Overflow. I keep seeing so many beautiful posts/answers. It's really a great place for everyone getting to know about software programming. Lots of people post so much knowledge in terms of solutions and algorithms that may be proprietary/open source information.  The least amount of personal information I can provide is my email id, if I connect with Google, Facebook, etc. However, the email id itself reveals my association and the work I do.  This makes me believe that Personally Identifiable Information on Stack Exchange should be absolutely safe and not available to anyone, even the admins.   My concerns are:   Who can see my PII on SO? Is it safe from attacks?   Note:  It may be a paranoid / unimaginable aspect associated with how Stack Overflow works, but I think those who want to break things find ways to do it in unimaginable ways. Most people have work place information available publically on linkedin / facebook / google. Not all will use open id, hence the question.
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The problem: The links at the bottom of the Stack&nbsp;Exchange newsletter link to a YouTube video instead of the right place on the website. I´m not sure if this is an oversight or a clever hack.  Screenshot:
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I recently visited area51 for the first time and was disturbed to see proposals for Stack Overflow variants in other languages dominating the site.       I'll admit that seeing these worries me greatly. What is the reasoning behind allowing international variants of Stack Overflow? I understand it might be easier for non-native speakers, but it risks fragmenting our knowledgebase over multiple languages and segregating our users. Is this really the proper approach when English is, essentially, programming's lingua franca? There has been discussion in the past relating to non-English Stack Exchange sites:     And many outstanding points have been made on the subject:       But I'm still rather curious. Why are we suddenly forgoing Stack Exchange's Non-English Policy in favor of fracturing our userbase? As an afterthought: A great comment was posted by Emrakul (Actually that entire comment thread is lovely. Read it.) on the answer found just above.  We need to see charts of activity by country to gauge how many people this would bleed away from the main site. My guess is, it's a lot more than you'd expect.  Does this information actually exist anywhere? It would be amazingly useful/interesting if it has been made available to Stack Exchange users. A Note: I've tried to cite as many great discussion items as I can on the subject. Quite a bit of information exists on alternate language variants, but, to my knowledge, this question has never been directly asked. In summary, the question asks &quot;Why should language variants be allowed?&quot; and &quot;Does the reward really outweigh the risk of dividing our user and knowledge bases?&quot;. NOT &quot;Is it okay to be proposing these sites?&quot;, &quot;Should these questions be closed?&quot;, or &quot;Does Stack Exchange support sites in languages other than English?&quot; (all things which have already been asked).
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I've been thinking how easily a user could create a fake account to upvote all his own questions/answers. I didn't think of doing it myself; I like to win my reputation the right way, but I'm sure there are a lot of people who would do that.  Does Stack Exchange prevent this in any way?
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A lot of mention has been made of the seriousness of Stack Overflow (and presumably Server Fault). Would it be a good idea to turn  :-) into actual images as per  in questions and answers?
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I get Stack Overflow (which I'm guessing was the first site?) and Super User, Code Review, and the other sibling site names make sense to me.  But I've never heard of a stack exchange before.  Is a stack exchange a real thing, or is this site's name a combination of Stack Overflow and an exchange of ideas?
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I know a lot of female programmers, and I know there are a good number of them out there.  But I don't recall ever having one of my questions answered by, nor have I ever answered a question by a female programmer here at Stack&nbsp;Overflow.  Now I mostly deal in the Delphi tag, and that may make a difference. But I've got the feeling there is something about the programming social network that Stack&nbsp;Overflow is, along with its form of mini-competition (via reputation) that turns most ladies off.  When I go down the first few pages of top users by rep, there is nary a lady to be found.  Go over to Quantcast and . Go down to the Demographics, and you'll see that a full 20% of the visits are by females. So they are here, lurking and using the wonderful info that Stack&nbsp;Overflow provides.  Then why aren't there more of them participating, both with questions and answers?  What can Stack&nbsp;Overflow do to persuade female programmers to participate more?    So after a dozen downvotes offset by a dozen upvotes, and accusations by many that I am a bigot, the bottom line seems to be that Stack&nbsp;Overflow appeals to males more than females.  This is my observation and I believe a proper analysis would support the hypotheses that a much higher percentage of male programmers use Stack&nbsp;Overflow than the percentage of female programmers.    Assuming that is the case, then Stack&nbsp;Overflow is geared more towards the male psyche than the female. If so, I again ask, what can they do about that?      This question was asked in StackOverflow Meta on November 20, 2009. It was made Community Wiki. It was asked in a constructive manner and should be considered an appropriate question for Meta.   Yet it was closed over two years after it was asked as "not constructive" after more than 40 upvotes and 10 favorites and 16 answers.   Now it resides here on Meta StackExchange, still closed. I just shake my head.
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It's    that posting links to your own website is ok, but should there be a line drawn? There were several spam flags today for 's recent posts, presumably because they all link to his website. Initially I disagreed because his answers seem for the most part relevant to the question, but then I looked into it more and realized there's three things that set this apart from most of the related cases that have come up:   This isn't an occasional thing -- he's posted  in the last year This isn't a random blog he writes for a fun, it's a for-profit company he  and makes money promoting I'm not willing to go through all 412, but from the sample I checked, he generally doesn't mention that the products he's recommending are his own. The site is linked from his profile, but most people aren't going to check that   Is all this considered acceptable use, or are the spam flags accurate?
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I am fairly new to Stack Overflow and just stumbled across Meta Stack Overflow.  I can't seem to figure out what the purpose of the "Meta" site is. Can someone please explain it to me?
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About two months ago, I tried to contact the Stack Overflow team using the email address provided on the Contact Us page.  I have not heard back. Is there an alternate contact address?
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Super User got hit by another batch of spammers creating profiles. They've got accounts on other sites from what I've heard from other mods and from the comments here.  Last time it was streaming. Now it's  (as of december, looks like they're spamming scammy finance too). I have 160+ pages of users from that search, and a quick look suggests most of them are spammers. Comments from this post indicates it's network wide - and a quick check indicates Stack Overflow has a handful of these too, though not as many as we have.  While the powers at be have been taking action, both directly, and indirectly, it feels like between shared IPs and search, mods might be able to take a good chunk of these out if we can somehow have a way to delete accounts somewhat in bulk. You guys are awesome. But these... People keep doing it still, and it would be nice to see their works undone.  Unlike our streaming spammers, they've switched to phone numbers, presumably because Adam so kindly blocked links.    There's a few good suggestions at mitigating these - but ideally - I've heard from fellow mods that we want them gone.  They add to the broken window effect - which we can't do anything about due to sheer volume, and they probably poison our search engine results.  We can probably reduce the risk of oops by filtering by IPs (clearing everything on an IP lets me whack, 10, or so users at once, rather than clicking through 3-4 pages a user) and optionally selectively not deleting accounts that seem legit, we can probably clear out a bunch of these without really needing CM intervention. It does make it a little too easy, but these incidents, well kinda need a flamethrower's gentle warmth.  I'm cool with a no. I'm probably going through the usual channels in future. Would be nice to have something that lets mods deal with this effectively though.  Related:    - Actually goes into the impact of this  by a user - so clearly these are discoverable to an average user
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The title says it all: I'm confused as to the difference between mathoverflow.net and math.stackexchange.com.  Can anyone elaborate?  My its descriptions math.sx is a "Q&amp;A for people studying math at any level and professionals in related fields" and MathOverflow is a "Q&amp;A for professional mathematicians".  That's not a big help... :-)