User scunliffe - Meta Stack Overflow
168/100 score
Is there some way when flagging as spam, downvoting and applying a close vote to make the process faster? It pains me that this "lived" for almost 15 minutes before it was killed. I fear that letting this kind of thing live for more than 60 seconds sends the wrong message to spammers that SO is a place where they can sling their junk. At 10am EST M-F this kind of junk doesn't last for more than 2 min. But it seems that during off-peak North American work hours... It's a problem.
Can we ask why Google is blocked at your workplace? I get why some companies block Facebook, Twitter, YouTube etc. however if you have Internet access it seems odd (to me) that Google is blocked - just curious... I think for me these days this would be a bit of a deal breaker for me as I use Google daily to get my job done.
Being scared to contribute by asking questions (for whatever reason) is a real thing. I have over 30k in rep but I know at least twice I had a question to ask that I felt really shameful for not knowing (& didn't want to taint my rep)... and so I created anonymous accounts to ask a question.
@Suragch in certain cases yes... but if the comments went back and forth to get to the root of an issue, then I feel the commenter that tried to help, dug into the issue, and worked out a solution deserves some credit.
It just needs a light diagonal line pattern "watermark" or something through the back of the preview that indicates it isn't the textarea in a subtle but obvious way.
@user1587329 Feature Request submitted: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/292278/…
@user1587329 I certainly can... I'm just not sure if it would be "worthy" enough to be considered.
If you ask something on stackoverflow, can others see what other things you have asked in stackoverflow?
Bug: onblur not working correctly on editing comment when using enter
are we suggesting this is a stackoverflow bug? or an IE11 behavior bug?
How to make bold font within code section?
@Bergi ah I didn't realize downvotes on questions were free (stackoverflow.com/help/privileges/vote-down) I think the desire to better inform the poster still stands.
@Ian Ringrose the problem is that a down vote costs me rep when it's obvious the question needs flagging so we're hesitant to down vote. More importantly the OP needs the feedback of an "on hold" question reason that tells them why they can't just dump in a question and get us to do all the work, they have to take a stab at it (and in all honesty they will actually learn from doing it!)
I'd love to get a sense of the referrers too. I'm sure that most would be from Google, Twitter & various tech blogs... but a breakdown would be neat. e.g. what percentage comes in from "the hyphen site"? ;-)
Great Answer Jul25
I posted a JS Bookmarklet solution on this related question: meta.stackoverflow.com/a/266738/6144 it doesn't re-format your code but it will auto-indent your code 4 spaces to make Markdown "see" it properly ;-)
User scunliffe - Meta Stack Overflow
168/100 score
Is there some way when flagging as spam, downvoting and applying a close vote to make the process faster? It pains me that this "lived" for almost 15 minutes before it was killed. I fear that letting this kind of thing live for more than 60 seconds sends the wrong message to spammers that SO is a place where they can sling their junk. At 10am EST M-F this kind of junk doesn't last for more than 2 min. But it seems that during off-peak North American work hours... It's a problem.
Can we ask why Google is blocked at your workplace? I get why some companies block Facebook, Twitter, YouTube etc. however if you have Internet access it seems odd (to me) that Google is blocked - just curious... I think for me these days this would be a bit of a deal breaker for me as I use Google daily to get my job done.
Being scared to contribute by asking questions (for whatever reason) is a real thing. I have over 30k in rep but I know at least twice I had a question to ask that I felt really shameful for not knowing (& didn't want to taint my rep)... and so I created anonymous accounts to ask a question.
@Suragch in certain cases yes... but if the comments went back and forth to get to the root of an issue, then I feel the commenter that tried to help, dug into the issue, and worked out a solution deserves some credit.
It just needs a light diagonal line pattern "watermark" or something through the back of the preview that indicates it isn't the 
textarea in a subtle but obvious way.
@user1587329 Feature Request submitted: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/292278/…
@user1587329 I certainly can... I'm just not sure if it would be "worthy" enough to be considered.
If you ask something on stackoverflow, can others see what other things you have asked in stackoverflow?
Bug: onblur not working correctly on editing comment when using enter
are we suggesting this is a stackoverflow bug? or an IE11 behavior bug?
How to make bold font within code section?
@Bergi ah I didn't realize downvotes on questions were free (stackoverflow.com/help/privileges/vote-down) I think the desire to better inform the poster still stands.
@Ian Ringrose the problem is that a down vote costs me rep when it's obvious the question needs flagging so we're hesitant to down vote. More importantly the OP needs the feedback of an "on hold" question reason that tells them why they can't just dump in a question and get us to do all the work, they have to take a stab at it (and in all honesty they will actually learn from doing it!)
I'd love to get a sense of the referrers too. I'm sure that most would be from Google, Twitter & various tech blogs... but a breakdown would be neat. e.g. what percentage comes in from "the hyphen site"? ;-)
Great Answer Jul25
I posted a JS Bookmarklet solution on this related question: meta.stackoverflow.com/a/266738/6144 it doesn't re-format your code but it will auto-indent your code 4 spaces to make Markdown "see" it properly ;-)