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For questions about automating various actions on Stack Exchange, both from the perspective of the company and of individual users.

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Since a couple of weeks back, a chat bot I run is unable to access the site, specifically when run from GitHub Actions. I sent a question about this using the "contact us" form a couple of ...
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I've been doing a lot of things that keep making me think a machine could do it: Fixing typos, editing out noise, flagging obvious non-answers, flagging noisy comments, etc. I'm not of the position ...
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Stack Exchange staff has a tool which can search and replace strings in the URLs, see Shog9's answer here: How to find and/or change a set of hyperlinks on a site? This tool is sometimes used when ...
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Based on all of the Stack Exchange API endpoints, especially the [auth required] ones, what actions are bots allowed to do? There is a lot of things you can do with the API, so here's some that are ...
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Occasionally I notice a topic that has been discussed often enough to merit a tag, but there isn't one. For example, today on Raspberry Pi, a question popped into the active queue about using the ...
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I've stumbled upon many answers which had OP comments such as "thanks, this solves it" but OP forgot to accept (or possibly upvote) the answer. I noted that if I flag such comments some of ...
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I am trying to build a database of all the posts and answers on my Stack Overflow team information. I am able to download all data in the "Settings" -> "Billing & Accounts" tab but I am looking ...
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I flagged these as rude and abusive of site resources and ToS. One briefly got an automatic downvote, which disappeared and then reverted, the other never had the automatic downvote. I have refeshed ...
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I'm doing some experimentation with SyntaxNet (aka Parsey McParseface). You can follow my musings and results in Charcoal HQ if you so desire. Based on some early results using very rudimentary ways ...
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This issue came up here on Worldbuilding: If somebody is on a mobile device and wants to cite, e.g., Wikipedia, they usually insert a link to the mobile Wikipedia instead of the regular one. This is ...
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I am asking the current question because of this answer. I've never ever seen an answer with so many downvotes. We are waiting for some mod to remove it, and people keep voting it down. They should, ...
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Taken from the Create Tags help on Math.stackexchange: On some sites, new tags will be automatically culled and removed from the system if they are not used by at least 1 other question in a 6 month ...
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Having deleted hundreds of "chatty", "not constructive" and "obsolete" comments, it seems there are (roughly) two kinds of comments: Permanent, eg "The foo library ...
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Abstract We all, the ones who edit questions or answers, go through questions to implement the same edits to every question that needs an edit. Which is just an unneeded repetition that can be simply ...
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It's been noted that the Stack Overflow close vote queue has a few questions in it. More generally, it appears as though the Stack Overflow community cannot keep up with the volume of questions that ...
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