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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questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Let's vote! A project to bring some recognition to neglected content
There are currently 25,412 questions on Web Applications that are not closed or deleted.
Of those, 3,979 have no answers at all.
Worse, I think, is that there are 2,872 questions with answers, none of ...
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URL shortener cleanup project
For the most part, URL shorteners should not be used here.
Their primary benefit—fitting long URLs into artificially scarce text spaces—is of no use here. The Question and Answer spaces are plenty ...
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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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2012 Community Moderator Election
The 2012 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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2012 Community Moderator Election Results
Web Application's second moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderators is:
He'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank him for ...
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Let's not waste time trying to close old unanswered zero-score questions
If a question is
a month or more old
has the score of 0
has no answer
there is no need to close it. If you find it's unclear or otherwise unsuitable for the site, just downvote it. With the score ...
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Clean up project: Office 365
I draw your attention to the tag office-365.
There seems to be a bit of confusion on what this tag is for. Granted, the description isn't great, but that's fairly easily remedied.
A goodly number of ...
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Let's clean up some OS tags
This is Web Apps. Web Apps, by and large, shouldn't care about what a user's underlying operating system is. Still, we have a bunch of questions that are tagged with operating system names.
linux x15
...
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We need a canonical “how do I add/modifyremove tags in my Tumblr theme” question
It seems to me that an awfully large percentage of questions about Tumblr are people trying to customize how or if tags appear in their posts. To wit:
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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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Where are all of these Office 365 questions coming from?
It seems that in the last week, there's been quite an increase in the number of questions about Microsoft Office 365 products. (Excel Online, Outlook on the Web, etc.)
Don't get me wrong; I think it'...
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2013 Community Moderator Election
The 2013 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 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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2018: 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, in ...
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How to write a tag wiki
There needs to be a guideline of what's the recommended way on Web Applications to write a tag wiki. Feel free to use this post as a starting discussion and eventual future FAQ for WebApps tag wiki ...
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2012 Moderator Election: Town Hall Chat
In connection with the moderator elections, we will be holding a Town Hall Chat session with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the ...
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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 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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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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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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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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Comprehensive question quality blocks now enabled here
See: Comprehensive question quality blocks now enabled everywhere
Previously, users whose posts here were generally not well received may have received warnings about them, but were never in danger of ...
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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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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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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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0answers
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The “new” Top Bar is now active on Web Apps
From New top bar is coming to the Stack Exchange network
I’m excited to announce that the top bar design that has been on Stack Overflow for several months is coming soon to the Stack Exchange ...
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New custom close reason here on meta
I've proposed the following new custom close reason for here on Meta.Webapps:
The problem described here can no longer be reproduced. Changes to the system or to the circumstances affecting the ...
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Why was the question “How can I prevent Outlook from automatically placing some emails in the junk folder?” closed as “details or clarity”?
1 mod closed How can I prevent the Microsoft Outlook web interface from automatically placing some emails in the junk folder? as "details or clarity". No comments were left. What's unclear ...
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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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Overlapping [export]/[data-liberation]/[migrate-data]/[migration] tags
I draw your attention to the following tags (numbers are of Open Qs):
data-liberation x42
migrate-data x35
export x93
migration x20
These would seem to cover virtually the same thing.
migration has ...
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Please consider merging [facebook-chat] & [facebook-messages]
If you have enough reputation, please suggest facebook-chat & facebook-messages as synonymous.
That is (keep in mind those tags have no descriptions), unless the former means the pop up version ...
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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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Why was the question “Show email next to name in Gmail?” closed by 1 mod as “details or clarity”?
1 mod closed Show email next to name in Gmail? as "details or clarity". The only comment left by the mod is:
Please show what you tried and add a brief description of your search efforts ...
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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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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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What are the criteria for 'some of your questions have not been well received' warnings?
Similar question to this one:
Why am I in danger of being blocked?
I was actually blocked for some months. During that time I spent several hours going through my questions, my answers, trying to ...
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Do we need to extend the [importxml] wiki?
Recently a clean-up project was started related to importxml and importhtml.
Rightnow the importxml wiki includes a quotation of the official help article which only describes the syntax and point ...
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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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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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Shoutout to this community for its good work!
I didn't do my part and asked a good question on the wrong subsite of StackExchange; it belonged to Android Enthusiasts.
Somebody migrated the post, I think a user named Alex, who was the user with ...
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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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Emphasizing that questions about Stack Exchange are off-topic here, even though logically they on-topic
The question How to hide the welcome back message on Stack Exchange? was asked because I assumed modifying a website was perfectly suited Web Applications (Stack Exchange network is a subset of the ...
