These two keep tempting me to click on them, even though deep down in my heart I know I have reached the limit on both. It pains me to see bad questions/answers while being helpless to do anything about it.    Why torture a man by shoving it in his face? And in such bright colors, on top of that!
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Once a user has exhausted their (currently) 30 edit suggestion approval/rejections, the pending edit box in the top bar can still show up:    You click through and see some edits suggested to vote yay or nay on.   But when trying to approve/reject you get the warning:      Out of votes - you may only vote 30 times a day.   Don't tease me, bro!
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This is just depressing:    And I don't mean it's depressing that there are that many questions that might need to be closed. There are nearly 6 million open questions on Stack Overflow - if under 2% of those are crap, we're doing great. Realistically, that number is probably going to get a lot bigger before we're done... But I'm working on another post about that, so enough said for now.  No, that number is depressing because I can't do anything about it. Ok, realistically I could - since I'm immune to the normal voting limits, if I spent the rest of my evening reviewing stuff I might be able to bring it down by... .1 or .2K. That's assuming my wife doesn't kill me first. But for most other folks reviewing stuff, there's literally nothing they can do that will affect that number. They can burn through their entire review limit, and it'll still be exactly the same.   That's depressing. And it's a lie. Those folks are helping, they are accomplishing something useful... The system just doesn't tell them this. And that's wrong.   So here's what I'm proposing: every time the background task that populates the queue adds another bunch of items to it, figure up how many pending review tasks are in there from the past 24 hours... And display that number. Yeah, it'll still be a pretty big number - but now we're talking 2-3 digits at worst rather than a progress-hiding abbreviation. And more importantly, with sufficient effort it'll be possible to watch it go down.   For informational purposes, I would keep the full backlog displayed on .  This might eventually be useful for other queues (broken links...) but for now it's only really needed for close and only on Stack Overflow.
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Seems like a stupid question, but I'm after a nice solid answer if possible.  I joined SO a while ago to ask the odd question, but recently I'm starting to use it more often.  I've been reviewing the 40 max items (20 first posts/20 late answers) per day, and editing anything I see wrong with them (lots of +2's)... flagging them... etc.  I've also been  per day.  But other than commenting where I can and answering the odd question, I'm only  (1k at the moment).  I might just be overeager, but I was hoping some high-rep users might be able to write a little something on how they earned their stripes?  I've , and to be honest I was hoping I'd get a hit, because it sounds like a stupid question... anyways, here you go!  Also, I'm not referring to how to gain rep on Meta, since it's a bit of a fluke I've earned the rep I have on here. I'm asking about main SO.
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Look  to see what I mean? Should I ask one of these guys to delete their answer (and merge whatever detail is missing into the other answer)? I'm aware of this , but it's a little different.
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I just encountered , which is very cute and funny and has nothing to do with programming.  I tried voting to close, but was informed by the system that I can't do that when there's a bounty on the question.  So, since there's a seven-day bounty, this will remain open for at least a week.  I really don't care what happens to the bounty rep, I just want to be able to close questions that are thoroughly inappropriate although not offensive.
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The  is at best quite lame.  I think it would be easier to ask better questions , like in a standard email client.  One draft isn't enough.
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So you are camping (please excuse the MMO jargon, sometimes I just can't help myself) your own particular corner of Stack Overflow, hoping for a couple of upvotes before bed.  It's freezing cold and you can't quite drag yourself across the room to grab the little blow heater, because that would mean leaving the almost adequate warmth of your laptop.  A completely objective question pops up, to which you absolutely know the answer.  Riding the surge of adrenaline, you spend the next twenty minutes typing like a madman. Desperate to beat the other lunatics that loiter in your tag of choice.  You beat them to the punch and enter a superlative answer, code samples, examples and maybe some ironic humour. You are flushed with your own awesomeness.  You go to bed. Satisfied you have garnered a couple of points of virtual self validation. You look forward to the flush of pleasure in the morning when you see your account bumped ever closer (yet never close enough) to that shining example of Skeetness.    Yet, the next morning, no such flush occurs.  Your answer sits in prime position for some questioner love and none eventuates.  You might get a couple of upvotes from some sympathetic SO compatriot, but the ultimate (I'll try to avoid any unsavory metaphors here)  satisfaction of accepted answer is denied you.    So my question. How you react to this kind of situation?   Catch yourself monitoring the questioner's account waiting for them to log on and then breaking nearby inanimate objects when your answer continues to be ignored. Panic that the questioner might delete their account, leaving your beloved question to evaporate in a puff of uninterest.  Wondering if it was something you said and answering some other of the questioner's queries in the hope of redeeming yourself in their fickle eyes.   I have seen a few examples of this type of frustration on Twitter and wondered how the hardcore Stack Overflow community dealt with this type of rejection.
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So, I'll admit, I love point-and-click adventure games. The problem is, I'm terrible at them! I've been staring at this screen in Botanicula for close to half an hour, and I still have no idea what I'm supposed to do with these bouncy little cherry looking guys, and this cone.    What do I do in this area? (Or, have I been wasting my time staring at nothing?)
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I guess this is an additional to previous requests like  and .  But I just came across  review item, and was unable to flag it as spam.  edit: Since I posted this, the item has been removed (deleted) here is a screenshot:
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Most of the time, I don't need to ask questions to find the answers I am looking for. Because I just find all the answers on Stack Overflow. It is a huge resource of good tips, tricks and solutions. And by only looking around and searching (= ), my reputation stays at 1 of course.  But I also want to show my active participation by things like:   pointing out the answers that helped me out. somehow say "good answer, buddy, you saved my day today".   So no blablabla, just vote up the good stuff.  But I cannot. Frustrating.
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Consider this:    We need a space there! Yikes. At first I thought the user's full handle was developingo31. Maybe if it was a different color too that might be neat? Like a slightly lighter (or darker) gray than the "asked xxx ago"?
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How do you prevent programs from obnoxiously opening the browser on their own accord?  It's unbelievable that programs/developers feel so entitled as to A.) open another program on one's computer, and B.) then have the gall to browse to whatever site or advertisement they so please.  cough... Revo Uninstaller
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Failed another high quality  (for trying to ).  However, I discovered something interesting. It would be a good idea if the the there was a match between question and answer.
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I just answered my own question, and am now viewing answer 1 of 0 - doesn't seem right!  Note this is both in the title bar, and the big bold "0 answers" line - unfortunately I can't add red freehand circles on the app...
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After slaving away on meta, I finally hit the rep cap yesterday. By "slaving away", I mostly mean making an , but whatever. I got my first meta Mortarboard, and was expecting a shiny(?) black ribbon to go along with it. I think it would look rather dashing pinned to my fedora. Even if it doesn't, it would add to my hat-count, which is sorely lacking.  So I waited. As I know, it's always a caching issue. But alas, after a couple hours passed with no sign of a ribbon, I grew despondent.  So I waited. After all, many things around here happen at the end of the UTC day. I know, I know, apparently , but I had to find out for myself. Of course, you can guess how this turned out for me.  My next thought was to search for others with the same problem. The only post I found was someone reporting , which is obviously not the same issue.  Then, I thought maybe it just isn't awarded on meta sites. After a , I ruled this out as well. MSO being special and all, it appears that several users have earned it here.  Seriously, how do I get this thing? It's not a secret hat, and the description is brutally straightforward.
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I think it's helpful if we can go to a page and view all our own questions that   Does not have an accepted answer, and/or Does not have an answer yet.   The reason I asked for them is because, I sometimes need to review through all the questions, and pick those that don't have proper answers so that I can perform further operations on them ( such as offering a bounty, or accept an existing answer).
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Disclaimer: I understand that down-voting (social discord) is an important part of community building. Communal negative messages help to deter behavior destructive to the group. Down voting places warning sign in the road for new travelers (don't tread here) and to temper overexcitement.  Rant: We techies are a hazing culture. We invest countless hours mastering languages, algorithms and nuances. We accomplish great things. We rub it in people's faces to feel superior. We feel good becoming an "expert". We feel good when we master lambdas or create a great search algorithm.  Admit it, even the humblest among us feels warm and fuzzy when someone marvels at our work. It's validation. And it's not a bad thing.  But the joy of accomplishment has a darker sibling: PRIDE  It's part of what drives us so hard. It's part of every negative decision we make. And it's often at someone's expense!  Looking through posts on Stack&nbsp;Overflow, I see many answers with negative ranking. Many questions get negative rankings too. Many of these questions are repeats of ones asked in the past. The user could have done a more thorough job googling and probably deserves a mild slap.  But some questions are interesting and well thought out. New users usually aren't familiar with the thorough and serious natures of experts who frequent the forums. Some useful and interesting thoughts could be refined with a little help. Instead they're insulted and leave.  This spree of "reckless down-voting" may be hurting our "community"  In searching for my own name, I went through 10 pages of users with similar names and found most had rankings of 1. This means they never did so much as except an answer (automatic +2). Many of them just wanted their answers and no interest in community.  But I wonder about the many users who got "Geek-hazed". I wonder how many "Noob"s were scared away by unnecessary down-voting?  As of this writing I have a "rep" of 75. Barely noticeable compared to the super-users with rep above 32,000. But so much higher than most users ever get. My low score reflects some serious attempts to ask and answer worthwhile questions. But it's only a month of "real participation".  According to this article (from 2009)  what I witnessed in non-participation is nothing new.  Good reasons for downvoting  1) Person didn't even try to figure out answer by coding or serious googling.  Example: How do I validate user input on the client level?  2) Vague question; No code, No error msg  Example: Every time I run my application I get an error  Constructive alternatives to downvoting  1) A clearly new user didn't give code samples but described his error and error messages  Action: Suggest the user elaborate and include relevant code samples.  2) An answer is correct but vague. No examples, not enough detail. Maybe even sloppy English.  Action: Suggest the user elaborate and include relevant code samples.  Question: Do you think gratuitous down-voting hurts participation in our "community"?