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The Web Application Graveyard
Such questions should be Closed with the custom Off-topic reason: Questions on applications or application features that are no longer available are off-topic for Web Applications as no one will ever ...
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Is "It is not possible" a legitimate answer?
Yes, a "this is not possible at this time" answer is perfectly acceptable.
You should back it up with why it's not possible - quoting and linking to the relevant section of the help (if there is any) ...
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Where are users getting the impression that we are Gmail's help portal from?
I'm not an active user on this exchange, but I just noticed the question, so here goes my thought.
Update 08/21/18: It is the #1 result and they even created a nice onebox for it.
If you search I've ...
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How do I write a great question?
There are three important aspects of a question post at Stack Exchange, and you shouldn't neglect any of them. They are the title, the question body, and the tags.
Title
This is the advertising for ...
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Malicious Editing
There was no political intent here. If at all, I took a very apolitical stance and removed something that was not germane to the question at all.
A reference was made to a Twitter profile of a figure ...
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The Tour appears to give contradictory advice about browser questions
I have amended the tour to be more specific on what is allowed. The Ask About... section now states:
Augmented browsing extensions that directly relate to the use of a web application (...
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Should github.com questions be asked here?
The existence of a tag does not automatically make something on-topic.
Be that as it may, yes, Github is, among other things, a Web application. The trouble is is that it's a tool used almost ...
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2019 Moderator Election - why?
Without going into too much detail - it's not my place to say who may or may not be stepping down - we (the mods) were contacted by the community team for the simple reason that it had been 6 years ...
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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 wasn't involved with this, but since you asked for feedback, I'll share some personal opinions:
If you're asking how to improve the questions, one way would be to flesh them out.
It might be helpful ...
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Malicious Editing
As the other answers here suggest, the bit of text that was removed is completely superfluous to the question. We try to make questions on the
Stack Exchange network relevant to others, so personal ...
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Do the moderators plan to close most questions on this site?
This situation is very concerning. All of those questions were unilaterally closed by the same moderator as “needs details or clarity”, or closed as a duplicate of a question that is closed as “needs ...
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The Web Application Nursery
I'm interested in helping early adopters to find their way into new apps and to learn the ropes here.
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The Web Application Nursery
Well, why don't we start a question once a quarter, twice a year, whatever, with a list of all the latest and greatest apps, and then people can claim one and work through the canonical questions for ...
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Is 'icons' a good tag?
The icons tag has been removed from all of those questions. The clean-up tool will remove it within the next 24 hours.
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Site Activity and VoteGraph 20160614 in the last 12 weeks
In taking a closer look, nothing nefarious is going on.
Since it's impossible to know someone's motivations for voting, I am going to err on the conservative side and assume that people are ...
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Best practices for recommending a web app or other tool
Yes, very often someone has recognized the very problem the Asker has and built something to address it. "Why re-invent the wheel?" as the old saw goes.
By all means, do recommend an app if ...
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Remove Web Apps from migration path for Super User
As per the stats, it's actually 25% - there were total 149 migrations in the last 3 months and of that 84 were to Web Apps.
25% of 84 ~ 21 rejections over a span of 90 days is think not that big of ...
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Are questions about corporate applications on topic?
I would say that they're on-topic, but it's unlikely you're going to get answers to your questions. Unlike, say, Gmail, the audience for such apps is much smaller and I wouldn't expect people who use ...
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Election check-in - Who's interested in stepping up to help being a moderator here?
I might be running, if no-one else steps up. Most of my activity lately has been reviewing and editing rather than answering, and in general I'm more of a flag-handler and being-a-general-Stack-...
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Is removing "thanks" a tiny, trivial edit that is discouraged?
Yes, it's fine to reject edits like this.
While removing "Thanks" is generally beneficial, there's probably more that could be done to improve the post so these things should be addressed as well.
...
ChrisFMod
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Is this question really opinion based?
Yes.
These questions can only be accurately answered by someone who works for the company/app. It clogs Web Apps with a bunch of unanswered questions that turn into tumbleweeds.
It's not that your ...
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What specifically about my 3 WebApps questions is causing me to get blocked?
So, you have 4 questions (1 deleted) with a grand total of 1 upvote and 2 downvotes.1 (The 2 downvotes are on the deleted question.) That's not a great track record. It's not terrible, though, so an ...
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How to ask a question that has been asked before but not given a full answer
The usual accepted approach on all SE sites is to ask the question your way and include a link to the existing question that you feel doesn't give an acceptable answer.
State in your question why you ...
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False grounds for "on hold"
I put the question on hold. Please see the Help, but specifically:
Don't ask about...
Creating or developing a web application
Your other question was marginally okay, because it was ...
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