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Option to migrate to Super User?

Prompted by this question Are we going to have an option on the close menu to migrate questions to Super User (if appropriate)? Now that a better "off topic" migration dialog has been ...
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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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Can we black list [web-application]?

web-application has quite a number of questions tagged to it, but considering the name of this site seems to be rather redundant. I mean, technically, every question on here should have that tag. ...
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Questions shouldn't have two tags that are identical

This question has three tags, two of which are formula. This doesn't look right. Shouldn't the site either forbid such things or prompt for them to be corrected?
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Make all recommendation questions out of scope and off topic, regardless of research

Maybe it's time to be final and state that any and all recommendation questions are just off topic and out of scope with the site. The current close reason listed reads: Questions seeking ...
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CSS bleed-thru on tags

I'm seeing an issue with CSS on Firefox (22, Windows) where the little triangles in the new tag icons are bleeding through popups. Here's a screenie: I have not checked it in other browsers.
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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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Reduce the reputation threshold to be allowed to cast a reopen vote on a closed question

Closed questions on Web Apps SE are almost never reopened by regular users only: Only 1 question got reopened in all of 2023 without moderator help. TheMaster Oct 30 at 10:16 One of the reasons is ...
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Re-phrase "web development" close reason

The current custom close reason for application development question reads: Questions about web application development are off-topic here, but can be asked on Stack Overflow. We're doing our ...
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LMGTFY.com ban?

Let Me Google That For You and Let Me Bing That For You are both banned on Stack Overflow. I thought they were banned network-wide, but I just edited a link out of an answer here on Web Apps. For ...
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FAQ refers to Stack Apps

In the reputation section of the FAQ there are three references to Stack Apps. This is also true of the meta FAQ.
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Question closed for "needs details or clarity" but it's so simple I don't know what more detail to add

My question How do I download all my videos from Google Photos? was closed with the following reason: This question needs details or clarity. It is not currently accepting answers. Add details and ...
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Why can't I see the diffs & sources of revisions on this question?

Offical Twitter iPhone App & Bit.Ly Pro Going by the revisions on this post, there have been 3 edits with changes to tags. However, expanding the revisions shows no change. Another weird ...
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Change of Background Color Tag Badge

A few days ago I earned my first bronze tag badge on the google-spreadsheets tag: I had to give almost 100 answers to gain the corresponding up-votes. On the chat I was telling that you can earn ...
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Please make [google-inbox] a synonym of [inbox-by-gmail]

The official name of the product is Inbox by Gmail, but it is often called "Google Inbox". (The URL of inbox.google.com exacerbates this a bit.) Please make google-inbox a synonym of inbox-by-gmail ...
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Synonym requests

These tags seem close enough to me to be merged: google-account & google-accounts, and user-accounts, and account. My apologies if this isn't the right course of action, but I can't do anything ...
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Can we kill (and possibly blacklist) [php]

PHP is a scripting language for building dynamic web sites and web apps. This site is not about building web apps. I've been looking through php and any question that's not already closed should be ...
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Can we add [problem] to the tag blacklist?

Earlier today we had a number of questions tagged problem I cleaned them all up, but can we add it to the tag blacklist to avoid it's return?
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Users listed on Badge slightly misaligned

On the gmail badge page, this is seen, Rebecca is lower than Al and Senseful. .mod-flair span seems to be pushing Rebecca down. Seen in the following browsers Google Chrome Mac 12.0.742.91 Safari ...
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Why do mods sometimes decide not to follow the community consensus when deciding to keep questions closed?

For example, in the following meta questions, the community consensus is to reopen the corresponding main site questions: In the meta question Why was my question on how to disable "small caps&...
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Why was this question on "Where can I see all my comments on issues on GitHub?" closed by one moderator?

The question Where can I see all my comments on issues on GitHub? was closed by one moderator. The reason given is: This question doesn't meet theĀ current quality standards. RubĆ©n - People Firstā™¦ Apr ...
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Suggestion Popup Window Isn't Draggable

The popup window in the suggestion review queue isn't draggable unlike the flag popup window for example: Update 27/07/2013, Low Quality Posts: I would like it to be draggable. Perhaps along the ...
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Break synonym between [account-management] and [account-recovery]

Currently, account-recovery is a synonym of account-management. While I agree that they're related, and sometimes closely so, I suggest that they're sufficiently different that they should not be ...
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Please update the "recommendation" custom off-topic reason to include guidance to Software Recs

Among our current custom off-topic Close reasons is one for questions asking for recommendations. It currently reads: Application/website recommendations are off-topic and out of scope. It is better ...
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Merge [blogger] with [blogspot]

blogger and blogspot are about the same service. Please make them synonymous.
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Let's expand the "dead app" close reason

One of the custom off-topic close reasons here is Questions on applications that no longer exist are off-topic for Web Applications as no one will ever be able to make use of the answers again. ...
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Rename request: [google-drawing] to [google-drawings]

Google calls its web-based diagramming software Google Drawings (see) and we are in favour of consistency. Please rename google-drawing > google-drawings. There are at present about 23 Qs with the ...
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Nobody's [defaults] but mine

I draw your attention to the defaults tag. This looks to be the very definition of a meta-tag. Every app will set these up differently, and whether or not they're changeable is up to each app. No one ...
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Chat button in the question

Chat in Web Applications is not very popular so far. Most users do not know about the chat option. I think it is better to include the "Chat" button on the question itself to make people aware of it. ...
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Percent-encoding of asterisks (*) in links

In this answer I linked a URL that contains a * character: http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://www.alexa.com/topsites The * char seems to be converted to %2a. When I click this link, I get the ...
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Typo in the FAQ

From the FAQ: Shouldn't that be application?
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Merge [passwords] and [password] tags

The password and passwords tags should be merged, as they refer to the same thing.
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Please merge [google-plus-hangouts] and [google-hangout]

They really are the same thing and have a comparable number of questions each. google-plus-hangouts google-hangout
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SkyDrive is now OneDrive

OneDrive for Everything in Your Life Today we are pleased to announce that SkyDrive will soon become OneDrive. We have more than a handful of questions about skydrive. Please re-tag them as ...
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Duplicate user created?

One of my questions got migrated here from SuperUser (which, by the way, I think was a mistake because I was asking about accesses to my Gmail account through IMAP, not about web applications). It ...
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Should this site include a "This is Spam" or "Mark as Spam" button?

I think spammers can easily take advantage of this site because of the lack of "mark as spam" feature.
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Should we have a banner to warn about our policy on AI-generated content?

SE has recently announced that sites can now request to enable a banner to warn about their policy on AI-generated content. This feature might be beneficial for Web Apps SE, where the community ...
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Synonyms for Google Drive apps

Can we get some synonyms created? Google can't seem to make up their minds on what things should be called. google-slides should be a synonym for google-presentations Google Drive was originally ...
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"Forgot password" and "forgot username" are separate issues - question erroneously marked as duplicate

The question How can I recover my Gmail account when I remember the password, not the username? is really about an odd case where a user remembers his password, but not his username. I have suggested ...
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Questions with no answers

Out of 3600 questions, it looks like just under 10% have no answer at all. This is just above the bar for a healthy beta site - has anyone analyzed the questions to see if there's any way to reduce ...
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Please make [office-web-apps] a synonym of [office-online]

(This is related to: Clean up project: Office 365) Office Web Apps is an old name for what has now become Office Online. Please make office-web-apps a synonym of office-online and merge.
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Can we get rid of the [issue-tracking] tag?

There are 12 questions tagged issue-tracking. Most of them are also tagged with something else, usually the actual issue tracking system they are asking about. Those tagged with only issue-tracking ...
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Render Error on Main Site

I noticed this (Chrome 26, Windows 7) on the main site of Web Applications: As seen above the info image is too close to the unanswered image on the sprite rev 2013.4.8.61 Firefox 19.0.2 - Windows ...
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Synonym request [hangout] -> [google-plus-hangouts]

Please make hangout a synonym of google-plus-hangouts.
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Merge [timeline] and [facebook-timeline]

Today I was asking a Facebook related question and I realized that there are two tags about Facebook's timeline: facebook-timeline and timeline. These tags have 8 and 17 posts, respectively. Since ...
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Retag request: [search-engine] & [search-engines]

There are (as of now) 18 questions tagged as search-engine 21 questions tagged as search-engines Here's requesting merging of the above 2 tags. Optionally, search-engines could be made as a ...
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2011 Community Moderator Election

The 2011 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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Show only Web Application Chat rooms in the sidebar

I think it is better to show only Chat Rooms related to Web Application to the Web Application Chat Widget. Now it is showing all Chatrooms from http://chat.stackexchange.com/. Visitors may confused ...
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How do bounties work on WebApps meta?

It turns out you can't get reputation from the WebApps meta site and you presumably can't lose it either. However, the WebApps meta still has a featured tab, so i'm wondering how bounties work on it. ...
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Phantom triangles on downvote warning

There are phantom triangles on top of the warning bubble when low-rep users downvote a post: I'm running Chrome 40.0.2214.115 m on Windows 7 x64.
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