Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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What to do with questions about unpivot / flattening data using Google Sheets?
We have several questions about passing data from a double entry table to a simple table shape.
By double entry table I'm referring to something like this
Item
January
February
March
Chair
20
15
18
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How do I get enough reputation to reply to answers in Web Applications Stack Exchange?
See Title. I throw myself at the mercy of the internet. Are humans generally good?
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Is there a good reason why new users are not allowed to create new tags?
I submitted this to the Help Center before I realized that this meta forum existed. Oops sorry about that.
I was just trying to contribute a question and answer to this SE instance regarding an ...
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Would a question asking for making a website's text content distraction/clutter free be on-topic?
I have a self-answerable question wherein I want to share how an article on Medium.com can be read without any clutter at the top, bottom, and in the sides. I wrote a userscript for removing bells and ...
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Rename “pivot” to “google-sheets-query-pivot” or at least “query-pivot”
All questions that link to pivot refer to the pivot functionality within google-sheets-query. I've submitted usage guidance to it which will hopefully get approved.
Due to (currently) having no usage ...
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2020: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...
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Why asking to point to examples of sample code is off-topic in Web Applications?
I am actually unsure about the reason why it is closed — in any case, I do not understand how the "being a question about developing a web application" applies here: the forum is about web ...
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Is showing research is a requirement when posting a question on WebApps SE?
I am confused about whether showing research is a requirement when posting a question on WebApps SE. Requirement means that if the OP doesn't show research, then the question must be closed.
One of my ...
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Must the OP specify whether they are using the web version of the product of interest in their question?
I read on https://webapps.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4789/18147:
By the other hand in the case of Slack, as it happens with a lot of "software as a service", it has multiple apps for ...
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Why was this question asking how to view all the messages one posted in a Slack channel closed by 1 mod?
The question How can I view all the messages I posted in a Slack channel? was closed. It was posted over two years and a half ago, attracted 12,000 views, 24 upvotes and not a single downvote. Why ...
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Rename [g-suite-administrator] to [google-workspace-administrator] or [google-workspace-admin-help]
Please rename g-suite-administrator to google-workspace-administrator or google-workspace-admin-help.
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What can I do if my questions are getting closed by 1 mod as “needs details or clarity” but no comments are given as to what is unclear?
I have used this website for years and this is the first time I have this issue:
One moderator is either closing or downvoting my most recent questions.
The reason given for the closings is "...
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Rename [g-suite] to [google-workspace]
Google has rebranded G Suite as Google Workspace. Please rename g-suite to google-workspace.
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Why is the Text-Formatting tag actively discouraged?
I recently submitted a question on ruler lines in Google Docs. One of the tags I thought appropriate was text-formatting. But the tag description starts, "Do NOT use this tag" then ...
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Why do I get a: This question doesn't meet our quality standards?
Why do I get a message
every time I try to create a question?
Can you be more specific?
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Why was this question on searching for a string across an entire overleaf project closed?
The question:
I have a project in Overleaf containing several latex files. How can I search for a string across all files of a project in Overleaf?
was closed by 1 mod. The comment left by the mod ...
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2020 Community Moderator Election Results
Web Applications's fifth moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied and the new moderator is:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly—please thank them for volunteering, ...
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2020 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...
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2020 Community Moderator Election
The 2020 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...
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2020 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here.
WebApps is scheduled for an election next week, 26 October. In ...
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Why is this question about Google Docs closed?
This question was closed: Google Docs shared link requires login to edit document
The closure text says:
This question does not appear to be about web applications within the scope defined in the ...
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Election check-in - Who's interested in stepping up to help being a moderator here?
Web Apps last had an election just a year ago which ended with insufficient moderators. At the time, I opted to try out three-vote closure/reopening here rather than running the election again. Right ...
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Use the current tags about categories of web applications as “default” tags for “untagged” questions
This is pointed to the Web Application members that review first posts and participated on tag cleaning efforts.
When a tag used on a single question reach certain age it is automatically deleted and ...
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Can we add “Do not use” to tags being cleaned-up since 2014?
On Let's clean up some meta tags there is a list of tags that look as meta-tags but after 6 years they are still "alive" (tags with <s></s> were not included):
filter - Can'...
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Decision process regarding Greasemonkey scripts
The page "What topics can I ask about here?" mentions "Greasemonkey scripts".
My question: Is there some publicly available information about the decision process of mentioning &...
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What's the purpose of this community again…?
I'm always confounded at how a site that tries to be as inclusive and easy to use as the Stack Exchange network, can be so unintuitive in something as simple as explaining the basic purpose of a ...
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Make (wayback-machine) a synonym of (archive.org)
At the moment, there are two separated tags on this site wayback-machine and archive.org.
The latter is an older tag. It has 29 questions at the moment. and it also has a tag-excerpt and a tag-wiki. ...
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What to do with Google Chat?
We have
google-hangouts for questions about https://hangouts.google.com
google-hangouts-chat for questions about https://chat.google.com
Google recently announced that "Google Chat" will soon be ...
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Is it OK to ask about rules of web applications?
Is it appropriate to ask about usage rules of web applications? For example "I posted the lyrics of a song as a comment to that song on YouTube and my account got locked without reference to which ...
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Anyone interested in collaborate to build a “How to ask a question about [google-sheets]” guide/faq?
Nowadays google-sheets is the tag with the higher number of questions in Web Applications. Unfortunately people answering questions are, IMHO, very few. Besides of the different reasons that we could ...
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Please help reviewing suggested edits!
I'm trying to help this site by regularly reviewing First Posts and Late Answers, but this has become somewhat complicated as of late. Most of the time I'd like to edit the post to fix some grammar or ...
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Why Math Jax rendering on Chrome, but Firefox?
ale and ChrisF closed Why Math Jax rendering on Chrome, but Firefox?.
This question needs details or clarity.
What "details or clarity" you need?
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Community Promotion Ads — 2020
2020 has come! But… oops, where did the time go? It’s already March! Belated as it is, it’s time for a refresh of Community Promotion Ads!
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion Ads ...
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Using LINE from Python, is it on-topic and how to find existing questions and answer?
I'd like to see if there are existing questions and answers here about the LINE application and a possible Python API for it (e.g. 1, 2, 3)
However, searching the site for "LINE" is the same as ...
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Do we want to reduce the number of votes needed to Close/Reopen questions?
Recently Stack Overflow reduced the number of votes needed to close/reopen questions from 5 to 3 after a successful experiment to see if it was worth it.
The results were that it did improve the rate ...
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2019: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, ...
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Can something like “Why does LINE demand to verify a cellphone number when I start the application on my laptop?” be on-topic?
I want to ask something along the lines of
Why does LINE demand to verify a cellphone number when I start the application on my laptop? Is there any way to avoid this; register as a new user of ...
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What question should be used (or set) as the canonical question for questions about split/transpose column values?
We have "yet another" question about "data transformation" in google-sheets that is about having a column filled with values separated by a character that should be split & ...
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34k views in less than a day? That's unprecedented
It also looks like a campaign to advance an agenda. To wit, this question:
Why does 1.1.1.1 not resolve archive.is?
At first glance, the question seems reasonable, even if a question about a domain ...
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Reputation how to get Stackexchange vote rights
I want to upvote the second answer as it is better Turning Google Timeline into a travel map
but for some reason new users or anyone with low reputation (But who has been using stackoverflow for 10 ...
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What we should do with formula-screenshot only answers?
In the last year we got a lot of answers that include only a formula and a screenshot to google-sheets questions. I just found an answer to FILTER(condition OR condition) syntax?
that include two ...
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Feedback request - What are your thoughts on three-vote closure?
As in prior tests, I'd like to get some feedback from y'all about the impact of three-vote closure on your experience here Web Applications. I'd like to ask anyone who feels up to it to write an ...
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Web Applications isn't for bad questions about app development and Super User either
Hopefully this will reach the eyes of one of ours community members that are voting to migrate to Super User "bad" questions about programming / developing apps.
Recent cases
Warning: Angular 6+ ...
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How do I delete my profile?
How do I delete my profile so I don't exist on this website please?
I've tried everything I can think of but by signing in with my Google account in error thinking it was something else.
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Cancelling election - let's try something else? Testing three-vote question closure
UPDATE:
Thanks for participating in this test! I'll look at the info and see how it went.
In the interim, if you have any feedback you'd like to give, there's a place for that here:
Feedback request - ...
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2019 Moderator Election - We need more candidates!
The nomination period for the 2019 election was scheduled to end in 15 minutes. However, in order for the election to proceed, it is necessary to have at least one more candidate running than there ...
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2019 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
Fixed Opening
In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall ...
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2019 Community Moderator Election
The 2019 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks,...
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Please remind people that questions and answers must contain the data
Questions and answers often contain links to Google sheets but miss the data in the question. Perfect example for both Q and A*:
Splitting the contents of a comma separated cell into new rows
Can we ...
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2019 Moderator Election - why?
I know we haven't had a moderator election here in a while (6 years!), but why now? I don't get the impression that the current workload is too much for the current crop of moderators. Is someone ...
