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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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Why have several of my answers to meta posts been permanently locked?
Recently, a moderator, Rubén ♦, locked several of my answers to meta posts (three were permanently locked) as “There are disputes about this answer’s content being resolved at this time.” Those ...
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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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Enable tagged syntax highlighting
Syntax highlighting has been disabled here 2010 because:
We don't feel code highlighting is needed on web apps -- preformatted text is all that is intended, and auto-syntax would be a negative […]
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List of questions nominated for reopening because lack of research is not a reason to close a question
Following Cerbrus' suggestion, here is the list of questions that were closed for lack of research. We'd like to ask the mods to reopen these questions given that it was clarified that lack of ...
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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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Let's lower the reputation requirement for privileges back to "beta" levels
The question Reduce the reputation threshold to be allowed to cast a reopen vote on a closed question led to close and reopen voting being reduced to 500 rep here. I additionally suggested that we ...
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Is “needs details or clarity” connected to the help center article on questions that are automatically blocked for not meeting quality standards?
Recently, dozens (!) of old questions have been unilaterally closed in Web Apps SE as “needs details or clarity”, or closed as duplicates of questions also closed as “needs details or clarity”. (Some ...
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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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Main and meta favicon are indistinguishable
There is no difference between the favicon / small logo (the one which is used e.g. in the Achievements dialog) of Web Applications and Web Applications Meta:
(click to enlarge; the top one is meta, ...
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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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Drop spam flag lock action limit from 6 flags to 4
I'll admit, I haven't looked at the data, but I don't think there are many times the 6 flag lock limit was used as opposed to a mod dropping in with a binding flag.
Can the limit be dropped to ...
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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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Why do the moderators refuse to clearly state whether showing research is a requirement when posting a question on WebApps.SE?
I don't understand why the moderators refuse to clearly state whether showing research is a requirement when posting a question on WebApps.SE.
What I have tried so far:
I posted Is showing research ...
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What information is missing to be able to answer this question asking how one can use a dark background theme for the cells for MS Excel 365 (online)?
I asked How can I use a dark background theme for the cells for Microsoft Excel 365 (online)?. The question was closed by a mod who commented:
Please edit the question to include the information ...
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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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Clarify "Ask Question" placeholder text
The current placeholder text in the "Ask Question" form title reads:
What's your web applications question? Be specific.
I think this can be clarified to (maybe) stop or slow down users who are ...
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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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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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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 percentage of questions posted on WebApps SE end up being deleted?
I see on my WebApps SE profile that I have 160 questions deleted and 343 questions not yet deleted. That means that 32% of my questions end up being deleted (160/(160+343)~=32%).
This makes me wonder: ...
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Why is this question on searching for files with a specific extension and some file size range in Google kept closed?
Since a CM recently stated that showing research is not required, I flagged the question How can I search for files with a specific extension and some file size range in Google? for reopening, but the ...
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Why did a mod threaten me with a suspension for "continually pinging a mod" whereas I was simply replying comments they made on one of my questions?
On this question, a moderator wrote (emphasis mine):
On the main site, comments should not be used to have extended discussions. Please use the Stack Exchange features properly. Also, refrain from ...
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Troubleshooting questions are currently off-topic in this community; should we keep it that way?
A recent question that was migrated from this community to Super User caused a bit of confusion on Super User. The reason is because, as our moderator Rubén politely explained, "Troubleshooting ...
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AWS will be sponsoring Web Applications
We're thrilled to announce that AWS will be sponsoring Web Applications starting on July 22, through December 31. We wanted to give you a heads-up and walk you through what that means.
How and where ...
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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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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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We are (were?) under spam attack
"Processed Meat" already added on Charcoal HQ a link to the following Meta SE thread -> https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/47205047#47205047
From rev 5 of Web Applications is being &...
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"You can only post once every 60 minutes" - How come it wasn't 40 minutes?
Low-rep users are rate-limited to 1 question every 40 minutes (90 minutes on Stack Overflow) network-wide. I tried to submit a question here on WebApps.StackExchange, but I got the following error:
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Let user know if there's a pending edit from the review queue
I was trying to edit an answer from the review queue (late answers), and nothing happened - like the edit button/link is not working.
So I entered the post page, and then when trying to edit I got ...
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How to get attention to unanswered no-status feature request questions?
Today this search returns four feature-requests that have no status tag and no answers :
(sorted by number of votes)
10 upvotes 2 downvotes 4 comments
Drop spam flag lock action limit from 6 flags ...
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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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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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Rename [google-plus-circle] to [google-plus-circles]
Please rename google-plus-circle to google-plus-circles. This will match other similar tags (e.g., google-plus-pages).
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Horizontal scrolling bar on Users page
I noticed a horizontal scrolling bar above the footer on the Users page. This happens in any browser on Mac OS 10.6.8.
Update 11/10/2012: I’ve just seen this bug again. I’ll nominate the question for ...
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Nothingtoinstall redirects to webapps.stackexchange.com
Now if you type in nothingtoinstall.com in your URL you will be directed to webapps.stackexchange.com.
Isn't this a bug?
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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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Do moderators care about the community consensus?
Dozens of questions were unilaterally closed for lack of research by one moderator. However, the community consensus is that lack of research shouldn't be ground for closure or that least, it hasn't ...
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Why was the question “How can I download the form field data for several forms at once in Adobe Sign?” closed by 1 mod as “details or clarity”?
1 mod closed the question How can I download the form field data for several forms at once in Adobe Sign? as "details or clarity". No comments were left.
What's unclear or which detail ...
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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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