How do you unfavorite a question on stackoverflow.  It seems as though once you favorite a question, then it either has the 1 in the start or the 2 in the star but not back to its original state, which is nothing in the start; or favorited.  Thanks!
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What does bookmarking a question mean? How do you bookmark a question? Do users get updates on their bookmarked questions? Are my bookmarks publicly visible? How do you see your own bookmarks? How do you see other users' bookmarks? How do you see which users have bookmarked a particular question? What impact does the bookmark system have on the voting system? Can I &quot;un-bookmark&quot; a question? Can I search within my bookmarks?
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A user has asked  which did not receive much attention, and thus the user deleted the post. After some time, the user asked the  (with just slight changes to the title and a tag change), so that it could receive a bit more attention. The strange thing is that the question was not downvoted or poorly written, and yet the user deleted the original post. Now, since the original question was deleted, I could not mark the new one as a duplicate (it threw an error). My question is, how do we handle such questions? Just let them be as such or let the user know about it or is there another way to handle such situations?
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I've noticed recently that when I open up Stack Overflow via the iOS app, my favourite tags don't seem to play a part in displaying me relevant questions.  addresses highlighting issues, but my mobile display is populated by questions that I have no experience in answering:    Vs the Stack Overflow desktop or mobile website:    Question  I find this annoying - is there any reason that this occurs? Is it simply missing the "order by favourite tag relevance" criteria from the query?  I'd love to be active in the Java, C# tags etc but my involvement with Stack Overflow currently is focused towards PHP, SQL, jQuery etc...
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I voted for an answer, but forgot to mark that question as a favorite.  I don't remember:   the user who asked the question the user who answered the question the question's title   The only thing I remember is that I voted the accepted answer.  How can I find it again?
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Let me say first that I am fairly new here (about 3 weeks) and absolutely love Stack Overflow. At first I let some of the negative attitudes get to me a little, left a few snarky comments, but that phase has passed. I see the tremendous value for this site in the long run and sincerely do want to help make it a better place.  I find myself going for  the downvote very frequently -- currently about 35% of my votes are downvotes. I even make an extra effort to upvote good content to offset this a bit, so the number should probably be more like 60%. I always try to leave constructive comments and try to help out the confused ones who are really trying.  I truly can't tell if it is just me, or if these folks deserve it. I don't know if you guys noticed, but there are a lot of really bad questions being posted, and a lot of people trying to pass off things like "use jQuery", "use Firebug", and "use Google" as good answers (and getting upvotes!). I even saw someone copy/paste my "What does Firebug say?" comment as an answer and get 3 votes within moments. Sometimes This answer is unclear or not useful just doesn't do it justice.  I feel like some of the people just drive me nuts, but then again I feel this way IRL :) Am I being too harsh, or is it really that bad on SO? Has there recently been a surge of new users, and the quality of content is degrading, or was it like this in the "good old days"? Have I perhaps misunderstood the expected behavior on Stack Overflow -- should I just ignore these crappy questions and answers rather than downvote them?
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I'd like to post a question on StackOverflow, but I think I should be able to tag it with    . Poor me, there is no  tag; There is  and , I'm certainly not sure this is the right thing to do, so figure I'll start here.  Edit Question located here:
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I am regular Stack Exchange user, especially at Stack Overflow.  One of the things I really dislike about new and sometimes veteran users is that:   Either they do not accept an answer that works for them, Or they accept the answer but do not vote it up   I mean they can really both accept the answer and vote it up but somehow they wouldn't =(.  How many of you feel the same way?
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Important: This question is being asked here, and not on the Programmers Meta,  because I believe that several SE sites suffer from this same, specific problem.    On Programmers, I see a pattern emerging.   New User sees the "Programmers" site title, and asks their incomplete, "fix my broken code" question. Community members comment that their question is off-topic, and recommend Stack Overflow.  New User says "thanks" and leaves, leaving their undeleted question for the community to clean up.    What seems clear to me is that:   New User has never seen the "What kinds of questions can I ask about here" page, or if they have, they've clicked through it without reading it. New User doesn't know how to move their question to the right place properly  (i.e. post on new site, delete from old site). Community cleanup of such questions is onerous.  The moderators on Programmers, following the principle that the community should moderate itself for the most part, are not proactive about removing such questions unless they're especially egregious. Migration is even more onerous.   OK, so we have the .  Here's what it says about topicality, about halfway down the page:    Note to those who are confused about Programmers' site scope: it's all right there, in black and white.  However, I do notice a problem.  It's circled in red.  That's our fault, the fault of the Programmers community.  What we really meant to say was "Don't ask your code troubleshooting questions here; those belong on Stack Overflow."  Coding tools deserves its own bullet.  We should fix that.  However, what are the chances that the user is actually seeing this, and evaluating whether or not they should ask their question based on this?  So here's my question, in two acts:  ACT I:  Is there a way to highlight the pain points of a particular site to new users specifically, so that we can be very clear that we don't want those questions that are clearly and unambiguously off-topic on our site, before they ask their question?  ACT II: Failing that, is there a way that we can fast-track the removal of such questions so that they no longer pollute our front page?
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Is there a possibility to search for postings which I already upvoted and use keywords/tags for this search? If not, should this be made possible?  I will explain why I want this:  We are able to find all questions/answers we have voted on (like Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan pointed out). I am voting for good posts frequently and as a beginner I read new and helpful information all the time. Because I want to use those helpful posts in the future I would like to have the possibility to find them faster using keywords and tags. Say I know I already read a good post about parsing columns with awk and very likely upvoted it, I want to read it again.  As ProgramFOX said it is possible to do this search for questions I marked as a favorite. The point is that I don't want to favorite all those questions leading in hundreds or thousands of favorites. With doing so there wouldn't be any difference in voting and setting favorites. There wouldn't be the need to vote anything at all. At least for me.  To sum it up: Ideally I would like to use an additional searching flag which states, that I already upvoted (maybe to make it consistent for downvotes and others too). This could look like:  "search term here" inupvoted:mine   I hope others will think similarly and the admins could think about adding this feature.
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I want my question to be deleted permanently from Stack Overflow for some reasons. I have deleted the question, but when searching in Google, it is still showing up. I don't have a reputation over 10,000 to delete. But I want it to be deleted from my account. Can anybody help me on this?
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How should SO handle users who don't "maintain" their questions by selecting answers, or remarking newer/better answers as the chosen one?  Many questions...   Have no answer marked correct, even when one is plainly there Are not reviewed by the poster to select a new correct answer   I don't mind taking the time to answer questions, but don't see the point when I don't get "reputation" for doing so since no one reads those questions, and reputation seems to be the point of the site.  I think the "remind to accept an answer" feature is there now, since I just saw it when coming back.  I missed it the first time though.
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If I were in danger of being banned from asking questions, I'd be advised:     ... Also, edit your previous questions to improve formatting and clarity.   It happened to me, very recently. At the time, I only had three questions here on Meta SE. To quote Shog:     That's one positively-received question, followed by two duplicates - the last downvoted and deleted.   How do I improve a question marked as a duplicate?   Rewrite it to something else? Maybe that's gaming the system but at least its a way out. Rewrite it so that it is better than its predecessor? At least then it can maybe serve as a useful landing spot for a search engine result where the search terms matched it rather than the original. Get into the time machine, go back to just before posting the duplicate, do a better job of searching for alternate wordings of the question, then not post it? The only problem being, the Stack Exchange's search engine is, how to put it, far from perfect. Oh yes, and the time machine thing. Forget about it improving "duplicates" -- focus on improving deleted questions instead? How do I manage that?   Please, rethink the way you handle question banning warnings.
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Why do I get downvoted when I try to learn something about programming on Stack Overflow? Out of all the Stack Exchange sites, this one is the most unwelcoming to people trying to learn.  There was a post where a guy asked an innocent question and one of the comments was let the voting war start.  He just wanted to learn and people were downvoting his questions but others would upvote for being genuine. The downvotes make it feel like the community may not welcome beginner and novice programmers(?). Here are a few examples from me:   I did my research, provided the code, and made the plot.  I simply want to know why it isn't turning out correct.  Downvote. Edit: tom 10 responded and said it will be helpful to show the actual equation than just the code.  If that was the reason for the downvote, why not just say &quot;Hey, from the code we aren't sure what the true equation is&quot;?  Again I provided code and explained that the issue was due to  (e) not having enough in the array, but I wanted to figure out how to plot still.  Downvote.  I wanted to learn what the best method and format to save images is for publication quality. Downvote.  The environment feels so unwelcoming. I am sorry to state that again.
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Meanwhile, in August 2009  as reason for comment flagging, and the comment flags show in the 10k tools. And  is on its way. Hence: I don't care for this request myself anymore. An explicit [status-declined] would be fine.    What about being able to set comments to auto-expire? Or, alternatively, set a comment to be removable by the author of the question or answer one comments on?  This way the communities would allow for some personal or funny comments (even like "Thanks") without those comments littering the sites forever. Or, when the original author is allowed to clean up, then comments that have been taken care of by editing the question or answer, could be removed.  Why?  As, , there's no way to send a personal message to other members, I find myself abusing the comments like some "poor man's private messaging system". I try to refrain from things like "Thank you", but sometimes I do want to point out something to someone. After a while (hours, days) I then  to remove them (hoping that no-one actually replied to them with another comment, like "Thanks, fixed it").  Like :    (I don't find this feature request very important (at all), I am quite impressed by what's been given us already, and I doubt there's a way to implement it without making things too confusing. Maybe I'm just trying too hard to keep things tidy and clean. Still, I wanted to share it, just in case someone comes up with something very clever...)
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I always see Stack Overflow users giving -1 to new users' questions. This is not how you welcome a new user to the community. A new user does not know the rules yet.    I suggest that if one wants to give -1 to a new user, you prevent that and ask the downvoter to write a comment instead. new user = 2 first questions    I see the credit rating on my question is now at -9?  My question, is she not well formed or formatted? If you don't agree with the content of a question do you down-rate it? If an Ubuntu user asks a question that might not be reasonable, will you also down-rate it?  No. You post an answer that will present your thinking and correct him? I think that is part of the problem. When you first go to a community like Facebook, and you don't know the faces, you don't feel like any of those people are your relations. Newbies exist here as well, especially in a professional community.    First, welcome the new user in more appropriate way. And most importantly, force them to see/read how to post a good question.
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What's the best time of day, or weekday, to ask questions on Stack Overflow? I'd like to know if there might be a way to maximize the exposure or the amount/quality of responses.  At the very least, it would be good to know how to avoid times that might be particularly bad to post.
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I don't know if I'm being paranoid - but earlier I made a comment on a question that showed no research effort:  . I got a rather snarky reply, and a couple of minutes later I noticed that two of my top questions (which are otherwise on completely different topics) received downvotes within a minute of each other.        It is hard not to suspect a connection between these events, especially in light of the tone of follow-up comments made by the OP (who might not have noticed that I helped improve the answer that was ultimately accepted in the mean time).  Not sure if I am being over sensitive or paranoid; should I just move along? "Spiteful downvote" gets quite a few hits on this site, and maybe I am just too new to be immune to it.  My question(s): "Is there a process to reverse such behavior? Do the comments in the above question merit a flag? Should I shrug an move on?" Any words of advice or encouragement appreciated. Sorry if I sound whiny.  update - the question linked above has been removed "for reasons of moderation". Probably a good outcome. I appreciate all the helpful inputs this generated!  edit This is quite different than the question cited as the duplicate: in that one, a person lost reputation because a user was removed; in this case I suspect an individual user down voted two of my top questions in quick succession "out of spite". The message (shown above) in the rep dashboard was quite different... I request this question be re-opened.