Questions tagged [privileges]
Privileges are abilities you earn with increased reputation to do and see more on the site. Use this tag for questions about privilege notifications and privilege wikis.
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Any user can accept answers on questions with deleted authors
It's possible for any user to accept answers on behalf of a deleted user. I just did so to this post, marking my own answer as accepted.
This isn't possible through the UI, you need to send the HTTP ...
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Arrows labelled "Leaderboards" on "See reduced ads" privilege wiki are pointing at the wrong thing
When looking at reduced ads privilege docs page, I got very confused looking at the illustration.
It appears that the red arrows that are labelled "Leaderboard" are actually not pointing at ...
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Should we align reputation requirements for review queue access and edit privileges?
TL;DR: make the reputation needed to access review queues and to make edits the same, to spare anyone below 2,000 rep the frustration of not being able to do reviews properly.
It takes 500 reputation ...
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Pausing the 1-rep voting experiment on Stack Overflow: reflecting on the feedback and rethinking the approach
I acknowledge the feedback shared by community members and by moderators. We felt that this experiment was important because it allowed users to participate and engage in a low-effort core action on ...
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We will launch the 1-rep voting experiment on Stack Overflow for 4–6 weeks, along with account creation prompts [duplicate]
Moderator note: - This experiment has been postponed. Please see the duplicate post above for the explanation and discussion.
It's been a while since we last talked about the one-reputation voting ...
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Should people put bounties on other people's questions more often? [closed]
If you look at the bounties tab, you see all of the questions that people want answered. However, should we be encouraging people to put bounties on other people's questions more often? Many people ...
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How do I check my past upmod (pre-upvote-privilege) upvoted answers?
I have a repeated issue and I have to find an answer which I marked as helpful (upvoted).
My upvote activity shows nothing under this link: https://stackoverflow.com/users/current/?tab=votes&sort=...
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How can I post to Meta on Stack Exchange Stack Overflow to accomplish my next badge? [duplicate]
My next badge award recommended by this site is for "participate in Meta" in order to increase my reputation points.
But it then says you need "5 reputation points" to ask a ...
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Is the "Privilege: reduce ads" page outdated?
On the Stack Overflow privileges page, it says that at a reputation of 200, the user gets a reduction of ads. On the page describing it, it shows this image, with the red boxes showing where the ads ...
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Can I opt out of single-handedly closing questions via the gold badge privilege? [duplicate]
Sometimes, I run into questions where I think it's a duplicate, but I'm not sure. In those cases, I'd like to suggest the duplicate, but I don't want to close the new question all by myself. I've done ...
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After the split between Stack Overflow for Teams and the main Stack Overflow site, can Teams users still participate on Meta without 5 reputation?
Since June 2018, it's been possible for users who are a member of a Stack Overflow for Teams site to freely participate here on Meta Stack Overflow even if they don't have the participate in meta ...
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Why does Stack Overflow restrict almost any users activity without points? [duplicate]
I've been using Stack Overflow for a long time and constantly try to vote for my favorite answers to other people's questions, but for some reason Stack Overflow still limits my actions on the ...
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Lower the reputation threshold for approving/rejecting edits
I feel like I started getting the following error more often lately while trying to edit posts:
There are too many pending edits on Stack Overflow. Please try again later.
Being that only users with ...
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Can we empower low-rep users with elevated privileges given that they have demonstrable moderating ability and know-how of Stack Overflow? [duplicate]
My biggest pet peeve about Stack Overflow's Gamification system is that it gives moderation privileges (which don't need any or very little technical knowledge) to people who have technical knowledge ...
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Is power-levelling legit in Stack Overflow? [duplicate]
I came across a question titled "Does Laravel Documentation exists?" which surprisingly got upvotes. The question is asking about off site resources - which is off topic. It seems the people ...
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