I've come across all kinds of sites that are just scraping SE sites and taking the info for themselves, usually with a crappy UI. The most recent I've come across is , which seems to be scraping SU. Are we doing anything about them? Do we even care?
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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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I have seen these a lot lately. You click the link, and instant trojan. No need to download or anything.   How is this possible? Is there a way I can scan the links before visiting to make sure I won't be infected?
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I think the picture pretty much explains it all.  Not sure if this is the case for all SE sites, but this is from Stack Overflow.
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Apparently, as a result of  it appears that Yannis and myself see different statistics when going to the programmers.SE.com migration stats tool and the stackoverflow.com tool respectively.    :        while I see:        Why are the rejection rates so radically different?  Which is correct?  (Or am I simply misinterpreting the data somehow and these are representing different statistics)
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Questions like looking for css templates, blog templates, icons ... In general, resources (let's leave the licensing terms aside for now) which you might need when building a project of your own. Where should those questions go?  They're definitely not on-topic on Stack', SuperUser maybe although I doubt it. Webapps? Hmm, probably not.  Is there a place where they would be on-topic on the SE network?
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I just posted a question to  and afterward realized that it might not be answered very quickly due to how specific it was. So I also posted it on the   I plan to update both the SU and Ubuntu posts with the final answer I end up using, but I can't help but feel users from both places might not like that I've posted to both.  So my question is: Is it frowned upon to post the same question elsewhere and link to it?
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I've just asked six questions on , and one has been referred to this site.  Looking closer, I realized that this meta site is not just for Stack&nbsp;Overflow, as it seems from its name.  I think I'll need to transfer a couple of my questions over here.  Why are the two metas (the one for Stack&nbsp;Overflow and the one for all sites) merged into one instead of being separate?
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I recently noticed a new feature, the network profile link, just under the flag weight in my user profile page. It probably seemed like a good idea but I really don't like it. Here's why:  I am very committed to StackOverflow, use my real name for the account, take a professional approach to it and hope to use it as something of a portfolio-light at some point in the future.   Every now and then I venture onto other Stack Exchange sites but I do so with mostly different names for different SE sites. I have posted some questions and answers that I would rather not have connected back to my Stack Overflow account. They've been silly or controversial and have nothing to do with software engineering. I would rather a potential employer not see these posts or even see links to other sites I may be a member of. There are sites where mere membership can be offensive to people. For example: Atheism, Christianity, Skepticism, etc. I really do not want these sites and accounts to be linked back to something that I do take seriously such as SO.   It is also a matter of privacy. I see the network profile and accounts links as something akin to using a particular browser and finding out that the browser is publishing your history for all the world to see. Some might be OK with that but not me. There are SE sites I find interesting and want to participate in from time to time but only anonymously. Had I known that all of my SE accounts would at some point be tied and published together I would have never signed up for many of them.  I would very much like to see a check box when editing my profiles that specifies whether or not my SE accounts should be displayed.  Thank you for your consideration.
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Every now and then, mostly when looking at a new site, I find myself wanting to know   What's the source of this particular page?  Usually, I end up starting to dig in the menu_router table, and possibly also alias tables. Is there a module that will be helpful in finding and displaying this, and other relevant, information for me?
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Is a "log out from every SE site in the network" button technically feasible?  With so many SE sites popping up, it would be a very useful feature.  Edit: has this been implemented now, as @Ben suggests in his comment? I've lost track.
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I was just looking at  and they seem to be using the Stack Overflow engine or Stack Exchange.  But it seems to be hosted on their servers. How is that possible?
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It seems to me that two of the most helpful pages for introducing new visitors to the StackExchange network and methodology are the respective  and  pages of any StackExchange site.    However, if I go to  (where I have not registered), these two links are nowhere to be found!    No about or help here.  Oh, wait, here they are, relegated to the footer along with the privacy policy and advertising info links.    And we all know how often people look at a website's footer.  I mean, when was the last time you saw that footer?  If users had more of an opportunity to see the well-organized and important information on those pages before they were prompted to register for an account, we would see an improvement in the quality of posts and participation by new users.  I propose that these links be made more visible to new visitors who don't yet have a profile so they can get a better understanding of the website before being prompted to register for it.  Personally, I think that placing them next to "sign up" and "login" would be great, but increasing their visibility at all would be an improvement.
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With the addition of Server Fault and the future addition of Super User, I can imagine it gets relatively hard to keep track of all that is going on without having three windows open at the same time and constantly refreshing each of your recent activity pages.  Would it be possible/feasible to create some sort of mini-site that would allow a user to keep track of their account statistics over all the sites and see the recent activity on them (new comments, answers, rep gains/losses, etc.) in one place?  All I am really looking for is almost a clone of the current Recent Activity page (the one you click on the envelope to get to) that would show the activity from all the sites (as long as you have them linked, such as with the same OpenID).   If you wanted to take it another step forward, you could take the personal profile page and modify it to allow for the inclusion of all sites at one time as well.
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On , there are download options for only certain logos/icons. Shouldn't this include all the graduated sites logos/icons? I think it should.
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Have you guys used ? The repository has not yet issued for 16.04 LTS, but besides, it might not be free anymore.  Is anyone watching Acestreams/Sopcast with any other software + where can I find such software?  Thank you!
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While doing some flagging (yes, I'm a little bit addicted) I stumbled upon the user . At first the case seemed clear, Spammer, but...and that's a big one, he seems to be a productive member of SU and SO (his account on SF isn't there anymore, but it's still in the Data-Dump of the explorer, not sure what happened).  He does never seem to link against StarWind-Software, except with his name and profile. He also  that he's a developer there...so...at what am I looking here? I can't really place him somewhere.
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I'm currently analysing some landing pages with the URL inspection tool of the Search Console, and most of them look to be not loaded (script and css). The main reason announced by Search Console is: other error (without any more information).  I was thinking the problem might be that the scripts are too complex, but some of them are very simple.