I've seen this question asked 3 times, but in none of those threads did I find a satisfactory answer.  I'm not asking about reputation: it makes sense that different sites should have different reputations.  However, consider the StackExchange drop-down menu at the top left of the screen.  When looking through the "Hot questions", the links are often to sister websites of StackExchange (programmers.stackexchange i.e.).  It doesn't make sense to me that if I go to one of those sister sites, I'm no longer logged in.  I feel like it's counterintuitive to click a link to go answer a question, only to find that you can't answer that question until you log in.  What is the reason for this?  Is there an option to do as I'm suggesting?
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I would like to use many sites in the Stack Exchange network, but I need to login to each site separately. Though it's easy, can't we solve this problem? I know each site has a different url :( but is there any way?
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Some sites appear far more often in the hot questions list than other sites. I don't have any hard data on that, as that kind of data is just not publicly available, but I'm pretty sure my subjective impression on that is reasonably accurate.  Those sites don't appear more often because they are inherently more interesting, but because they have certain voting and answering patterns that favor them in the hot questions algorithm. I would argue that the goal of the hot questions list is to present questions from a large variety of SE sites to the whole network, and to show possibly interesting questions to users that would not have found them otherwise.   To achieve this goal, the spots in the hot questions list should be distributed among all SE sites. The algorithm should try to get a good sampling of all sites, and it should try to normalize the results for varying voting behaviour. At the moment, sites that intrinsically get more votes and more answers per question seem favored in the algorithm.  So I think one part of the algorithm should try to identify questions that get an unusally high amount of votes and views for that site, and give the smaller sites a chance this way.  I'm not sure on how exactly this weighting should be done, as a complete normalization would likely not work across the huge difference in scale for all the SE sites.  As a specific example that the current algorithm is broken I'll present . I don't think any site should occupy a third of the whole list.   Here's another instance where one site is overrepresented at the top of the list:
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I think that now that we have multiple communities, there are questions that will be of interest to multiple communities.    For example consider the question  asked on  .  I think that this question would be better answered on the   (that is where the experts are).  But since questions is of interest to both communities I think that it is useful to cross post it, where answers are also shared between the different sites.  I think that the best way to handle cases like this is by allowing cross posting.  I think users with 500+ reputation should be allowed to cross post questions.  This would allow users from both sites to answer them.  I think that this could also be a good way of marketing different sites to different users.    Similar questions have been asked about the SO, SU and SF triad but I think that this has become a larger issue (and will become a bigger issue as more area51 sites evolve).
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I have experienced this on a couple of sites (and I'm ) :    You look through the question list. You see a pretty bad (or at least not-so-good) question heavily upvoted. Or even worse, a very poor answer to a good question - upvoted to stratosphere.  Or even worse, a very poor/incorrect answer upvoted high up - and a later, correct answer, languishing with a couple of upvotes (since the flood of views is no longer there). Upon checking, you see tons of views, which came from SE Hot List inclusion.   So, people see an "interesting" "fun" question, head on over in mass numbers (especially if the destination is a smaller site), and due to association bonus, can - and do - upvote any random "fun" crap that's "hot" yet to an expert on the topic is at best not worth being upvoted (and at worst should be downvoted).  As per @Thursday's comment, this is made even worse because of the asymmetry of hot list effect: those coming from Hot Questions may recognize the question is crap, and perhaps 50% of them would downvote it under normal circumstances. But having only 101 rep, they can't. The 5% who want to upvote (for reasons that are difficult to fathom) can and do. Result: vote count that does not represent the opinion of either the particular community, nor the network at large.   UPDATE: The above effect just got a spectacular . As of this moment, the bad answer has only 7 downvotes (and 20+ upvotes), despite the fact that my comment which indicates it's a bad answer in need of downvotes has 23 upvotes - 3x number of people agreed that the answer is bad, than actually downvoted   One solution presented to this dilemma - which seems a bit too heavy-handed - is to .  My suggestion is a much more surgical and localized:  Do not allow voting in the following case:   The question is currently in SE hot list The user's reputation on the site NOT counting association bonus is not enough to upvote.   Note that an association-only users can still upvote any other content on the site - or even questions that used to be on hot list but aren't anymore.    As an example, an answer posted by myself recently was upvoted to 100+. It wasn't a bad answer, but if I'm being honest with myself, it clearly wasn't great enough to deserve 100+ upvotes that it got thanks to hotlist
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While on other Stack Exchange sites like Game Development and Code Review they recognize if I am logged in to Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange and after refresh request from page I am logged in there too. This autologin feature does not happen on Super User.  Even if I go to the login page, it does not offer me automaticaly to login with my connected SE account.  I know I am registered on Super User as I even asked a question there.
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Today I lost 25 reputation points and I'm just curious why? Apparently it was an upvoted and accepted answer and I thought that questions with answers can't be deleted easily. Talking about the general case, when a question gets removed by a Moderator, I'd think it'd be unfair to lose the points, because one still took the time to answer the question and probably invested a significant amount of work.   Unfortunately I don't have a link to the question. All I have is this:        but the "link" to the question is not clickable.  A syntax error question is a bad example for "probably invested a significant amount of work", I know, but again, I'm just curious what happened and want to know, why one does loose the reputation points ?
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I have posted different suggestions in the recent days, that many users didn't like. Although some are common practice in other forums, and some even if you don't agree are true (ie, new users get "bullied" by higher rep users many times).  I see that if users with a different way of seeing things, come and ask something here, and it gets downvoted, how is this different way of seeing things will ever affect this forum? I have been downvoted so much, I have each time less "voice" in here. I am not sure even if you can run risk of being banned here.  SO is a highly developed site, many things already implemented, it is hard to suggest something that everyone that has been here for long while will agree, something ground breaking. I suggested things that I as a responsible SO user, but with low reputation, I haven't asked many questions.  I think people on SO should be nicer to new users, I am not saying to allow them do whatever they want. Just be nicer.  So what should I do —    Quit in my attempt to participate in Meta because I will continue being downvoted?  just never propose any new idea, try to harvest Reputation by posting bugs, trying to answer things that are not too controversial so I don't get downvoted? Then when I finally have tons of reputation I can go and shutdown the reputation of new users that suggest new Ideas.   I think it is fine not to agree with me. But why do I lose reputation on meta because of a question that is proposing something new? If most people deem something not good for SO, well my question was useful. I mean my very downvoted ideas got attention, it was a useful discussion. The result was "we don't want that here", but it was useful, in the future other people won't need to ask the same. So is it really right to lose reputation because of that?  Edit:  I am adding this, because I think that by putting myself as example my point was a bit lost.  The FAQ says:     Are upvotes and downvotes different on meta?      Voting here works a bit differently from other Stack Exchange sites.   On Meta Stack Overflow, voting is often used to express agreement or   disagreement, not to point out a lack of quality or helpfulness.   Please don't be concerned if you receive downvotes – members of the   community may simply disagree with your bug, feature request, support   issue, or the nature of the discussion.   Some people in the comments have stated they don't even look at the reputation because of this very reason, which totally makes sense. But basically it means they are ignoring a part of the website's functionality, because it is not useful for that.  So does it make sense to lose reputation for something that people doesn't seem to consider?  I mean it is not the same to be downvoted on SO for posting "nonsense" and to be downvoted here for posting something others don't agree with. And I am not even talking about me, I am sure this has happened to everyone.  If it worried me that I am losing reputation, as it is I would have deleted the posts that are making me lose reputation. That is not my point.
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In principle, asking a question on multiple sites is fine, since each site has a different community that will probably answer the question in a different way. If the user is consciously choosing to cross-post for that reason, as evidenced by them taking the time to phrase the question differently on each site, then it's fine. .  But then there are about the lazy, spammy kind of cross-posts where a user is clearly copy and pasting their entire question from one SE to another simply because they think more posts equals more attention. Often, these cross-posts are on-topic on both sites, and poorly written but probably salvageable, so none of the usual close/migration reasons apply (which is why this isn't a duplicate of all the existing meta questions about cross-posting). All we can do is downvote if the question itself is bad and add a comment that cross-posts are frowned upon.  What is the right way to handle these posts?   Are both communities obliged to help? Since it is exactly the same question that would mean a lot of duplication of effort. Should the site that's "slightly less on-topic" close or ignore it and let the "more on-topic" site deal with it? I fear this might be our de facto behavior on PSE right now. Or should we have some auto-detection that simply looks at what the user has already posted today and warns him that we dislike cross-posting? From what I've seen these cross-posts are from the kind of newbie that might actually listen to a warning.
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Sometimes don't understand this question better suits to which SE site. So I may have account on that site but not able to understand that question should be asked there. Or may get similar question on that site. But I wouldn't like to see faq of every site to check . We can see different types of areas here . There might be question which can fit into 2 or more sites.  Is there any central location for what kind of questions can I ask on every SE site? Or is there any collection of site with it's one faq saying .  Update: I am saying is there any central location also for reading what kind of question I can ask on this site like  And I am not saying to remove What kind of questions can I ask here? faq from all sites. I do read faq of every site. But it would be good if I know what kind of question I can ask on each site when do anyone join SE community. It would be helpful for searching my similar problems on that sites also.
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I asked a question almost as soon as I got my account. I got a few decent answers, but none of them helped solve my problem. The question has long since become buried by newer questions, and there's still no accepted answer. Unfortunately, because there are quite a few answers with votes, to a casual observer it probably looks like the question was answered and I just neglected to mark an answer as accepted, and the system does not consider it "unanswered".  Or, I asked a question that was a bit more difficult to answer. After waiting for some time, I received no answers, little or no comments, and only a few views. The question does show up in the "unanswered" list, but no one has answered my question.  In either case, what's the protocol for me to try to get this question answered?  I see several options:   Post the question a second time, possibly linking to the original, to get attention for the original question. This is encouraged on sites like Reddit.  However, it's probably not appropriate here, since we're encouraged to check for duplicates and not submit a question that's already been asked by someone else, so this probably falls under that heading. Wait for some kind of wiki-like talk page to be implemented, then post a plea on the talk page for input and hope that activity on the talk page bumps up the question. Edit the question, but do nothing further on the Stack Exchange site. If I edit my post to say that I haven't accepted any of the current answers but am looking for more, then the question might get answered eventually by people browsing through old questions to find something they can answer. Post the question on other sites, but link to my original question on Stack Exchange. People will either answer here, or they'll answer on the other site and I can post the accepted answer here myself.  This might be considered spamming, so it might be better to do this without the link.      For more information, see the "" page in the .
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First, this is about beta sites that might not even exist later, but imagine they will for the sake of this question. Taking the latest 10 questions on , I see 3 questions related to Mac OS X:    From my point of view, all 3 could also fit on , the 1st one could also be on SO, the 2nd and 3rd could also be on SU. How we will deal with this type of situation? When should we close a question as &quot;Belongs on [...]&quot;? I already see identical questions asked on 2 or 3 different sites (by the same or different users). Is there anything planned to link these questions or something like that? I mean something else than the already existing &quot;Linked&quot; feature. Something to include answers from site X in site Y or something like this.
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The description states:     earn 150 reputation points on three different sites (not including Stack Overflow) within 15 days.     I have 3 questions:   Does this mean that if I earn 150 reputation combined on 3 sites, eg. 100 rep on Meta Stack Exchange and 50 rep on Ask Different, I would get this badge? Does Meta Stack Exchange count? Is this being awarded now since it states 'within 15 days'?
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Question in point: .  I should have sufficient reputation to be allowed to answer - and I can, on the normal site. However when I view this question through the iOS app, the "answer" button does not appear for me - on two separate devices.  On other (unprotected) questions there is no problem. I don't recall noticing this behavior before...  And submitting this with just "iOS-app" and "bug-reports" tag generated an error. When I tried adding the "bug" tag and resubmitted I was told I could not submit my change for another 23 seconds. What gives?
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I think sometimes there is a need to post question as anonymous, reason being to avoid linking content of a question with the identity of the questioner. This may not be so evident or required on technical sites like stackoverflow.com but sometimes is a necessity on sites like  or maybe in future depression.stackexchange.com  On such sites user may not want to link his identity to some questions where he may detail about his being over-weight or skinny or maybe some other attribute which he may like to keep private and avoid making his concerns public, but still want to ask a question with valid data.  I am not suggesting that user asking question should not be registered or not responsible for content. I think all down-votes or up-votes should still be attributed to user, but this way most users would not suffer , and reputation could even be used for a bounty. The only change should be that while asking question a valid registered user can hide his identity (the whole user signature block/user card and the reputation should be replaced by "identity-hidden") and that question should not be listed in his public profile.  Anyway identity of questioner doesn't add much value to question. If we think such anonymous question may reduce social nature of Stack Exchange sites, and maybe majority of questions will become anonymous we can curb that by putting a daily or monthly limit per user or put a price of say 50 reputation per anonymous question.  PS: I don't think this is duplicate of        because motive for question and reason for feature request are different, and I propose a different solution too, because creating another account for asking such questions has many problems which having a single account doesn't have    I don't have to manage other account If I keep single account I still may want to keep my details to be linked to my non-anonymous questions I may want to use reputations I earned as bounty for anonymous questions    also allows anonymous questions and may be we can take some hint from there.
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Formerly Reputation requirements compared. What are the reputation requirements for privileges on the various sites in the network? Also, how do reputation requirements for various privileges compare on different Stack Exchange sites? Specifically, the following types of sites:  Designed sites e.g. Stack Overflow, Ask Ubuntu, Gaming, etc. Public beta and non-designed sites Private beta sites  ...as well as any site-specific differences.
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I am wondering why a user who has SE accounts in several sites has to login to each site separately?   I understand the logic behind not creating a SE account on all SE sites and having separate sign-up procedure for each site.  But why am I required to login separately (or as is the case, I get logged in after I open a site and then asked to refresh page) into each page?  I also understand that one person may have different accounts across the SE sites.  What I am asking is why not login one account of a person into all the sites in which (s)he is a member of using that account?  This is not about 1. Signing up (at all) 2. Feature-request (maybe changed depending on answer)
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I have read many questions asked in SEs I have not joined yet; the sidebar advertises new hot questions and the top questions of many SEs are worth reading.  Whenever I read an really awesome answer (or a question) on such a SE site, I wonder whether I should join the SE just in order to upvote the answer (or the question, respectively). I know my behavior will have only a minor impact on SE sites, but I look for a general policy which is, in some way, good for SE if followed by all persons who are in such situation.  Is there any such policy? Or should I just do not care about voting and do whatever feels right at the moment. (In the past I have both joined the SE site and simply ignored the upvote button.)