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Why isn't there a UX.SE Careers page?
There isn't any reason that I'm aware of, other than it hasn't been done yet. I think it would be a great idea though.
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Why isn't there a UX.SE Careers page?
Disclaimer: This is my personal opinion as an employee of Stack Exchange. This is not an official company stance.
First, you should go read the great post Joel Spolsky wrote about the history and ...
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Why is UX Stack Exchange so unfriendly to dyslexic users?
The issue with trying to be dyslexic-friendly is that it's quite a subjective condition - meaning that improvements are different for each person who suffers with the condition rather than there being ...
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Is it possible to see basic usage data for this site?
Analytics data from sources such as Google Analytics (or other 3rd party ones) are not provided to the general public, as far as I am aware anyway. However there are various sources of public ...
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Should it be mandatory for people to explain upvote and downvotes on answers and comments?
Voting on SE is anonymous. That means that we can't force users to add comments while they vote. Up votes is pretty straight forward: a user found the answer useful. But down votes are different. That'...
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Incentivise Profile Completion with Reputation Points?
There already is an incentive and reward for completion of the profile section : the Autobiographer badge. Points should really be reserved for rewarding people helping other visitors out - asking ...
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Should badge classes be described by shape as well as colour?
Yes, although a minor point I would probably agree. It's less of an issue for people with all three classes of badge because the order of the badges is always consistent (the same way that traffic ...
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Have rules changed at ux.stackexchange?
I don't see the trend that you're referring to. Some questions are borderline, and in those cases I weigh up whether I think it's possible to answer well, and whether or not the answers would be ...
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Annoying 'Body must be at least 30 characters; you entered 24.' for image answers
I fundamentally disagree with this, I'm afraid.
A picture is not an answer, it's just a picture. Other than the accessibility issues an image doesn't give any reasoning as to why it solves it.
An ...
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Possible to modify OP's Balsamiq Mockup directly within a response?
Yes. Perhaps when you click the Balsamiq icon when answering a question, the site could give you options to select (one of) the OPs mockup(s) or create one of your own.
As a temporary workaround, ...
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Is having view all option in pagination good in terms of User experience?
Firstly, I'm not sure why you're asking this in Meta, as this seems like a UX question, not a meta question.
Secondly, as you have stated it, your question would be asking for a site review on the UX ...
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Synonomize [google-materials-design] and [material-design]
16 of the 21 questions tagged with google-materials-design were also tagged with material-design. I've removed the google-materials-design tag from these 16.
The material-design tag appears to be the ...
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Should comments have reputation?
No. The point of giving reputation to questions / answers is to encourage people to submit them. We don't really want people to leave comments beyond when really necessary (requesting clarification ...
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This site belongs to.... fix request
Sites can potentially be added to the list if there's a clear need for them. We can see if there's really a need by looking at the stats for the past 90 days.
In the last 90 days there have been 8 ...
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Should bumped questions be accentuated?
No, I would not recommend this. You have even summarized why that would be a bad idea.
I eagerly begin to write an answer. That is, until I look take another look at the question and notice it's ...
JonWMod
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Enable Stack Snippets on UX
I think this would encourage too many off-topic questions, or encourage users to answer in a more implementation-driven way.
For example:
Q: When should I tell the user their password is about to ...
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Proposal for the convention or structure for one type of question on UXSE and feedback
Interesting idea, I would certainly support a more consistent structure which supports posters thinking about these aspects when they post.
The area which most interests me in your proposal is the ...
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Would providing a review type question be a useful add to UX SE
Those sort of sites are good, sure. But I would be really nervous about allowing such questions here. How much use would such posts be to everyone else? Sure, maybe they'll be interesting to read ...
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Feature Request: Add on perks apart from badges?
Well there are additional peaks over and above the badges. There are unlockable Privileges that come in at different reputation levels. They give you the ability to vote, review and even delete posts ...
JonWMod
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Visualization Plug-ins
This already exists. Balsamiq mockups are built into the post editor.
How do I add mockups and/or visuals to my questions?
That pencil icon drawing a wireframe - that's the launch for Balsamiq.
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Placement of the "Post your answer" field
Well you've answered your own question here.
"... because the user should go through the posted answers to see if anything new needs to be added"
But there's more to it than that too. If a ...
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Confusing position for the buttons
Note: I am a Senior Product Designer at Stack Overflow
You are not the first person to point this out. This is something we've wanted to address for a while, unfortunately this particular project has ...
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Is it possible to ban or flag an user rather than his posts?
I noticed all your flagging of spam today Devin. Thanks, that was helpful.
Mods can suspend or ban a user, but I only see the possibilities open to mods, not normal users. As far as I'm aware, ...
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Earning the 'Comment Everywhere' privilege
This is more of a global Stack Exchange policy than one specific to UserExperience.Stackexchange.com, and has been discussed in the past over on the main meta.stackexchange.com site
But in summary; ...
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Equivalent of 'bug bounties' for information security in UX: 'dark pattern bounties'?
I don't know how that would work within the confines of a Question and Answer site, to be honest.
Just because something is of value to UX community that doesn't really mean it fits within every ...
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Slightly different answers
I’ll split the question into two answer sections, since I feel that they are related but needs different answers.
Answer in collaborative fashion
There is always the possibility to mark an answer as ...
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Can We Provide Help and Direction for Questions that are "Too Broad"?
What happens when we put a question On Hold for being Too Broad is that we encourage the OP to edit the question in this way:
There are either too many possible answers, or good answers would be ...
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Should bumped questions be accentuated?
The bumped questions only appear at the top of the "active" tab, which is correct as it's supposed to show recent activity. If you prefer looking at questions based on newest (which is what I do most ...
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Since we can't migrate off-topic questions older than 60 days, what should we do with them?
I think you've really got two questions here, I think the "this word vs that word" might need a separate question. I'll answer the point about off topic questions in general regardless of this ...
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