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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How to ask and answer software recommendation questions - aka 'The Ground Rules'
This post should not be linked to as guidelines for post quality. It is from the Area 51 days and is not kept updated with policy changes.
If you're asking a question, please refer to What is ...
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Pro Tem Moderators... Activate
I will be contacting additional users to fill more moderator slots, but I wanted to get the folks below activated before things really started to take off.
Throughout the beta, we need members from ...
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Suitable question for /tour page with relaxed requirements?
The tour page (formerly known as “the new /about”) contains a sample question with two answers. This Q&A&A triple has to meet some stringent requirements; in particular, they have to be short (...
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Migration Path from RPG.SE
Tool Recommendation Questions on RPG.SE recently became off-topic there.
I had many useful interactions with that tag over there and would like to see them here.
The most important thing that we ...
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"(Web) feed" instead of "RSS"
Currently the tag rss is in use.
Problems:
Technically "RSS" is not distinct, because there are several different formats that use this name (they are not merely different versions of the same ...
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Lets tighten the reins of the tags
First of all, I hate dealing with troubles and problems, especially if they could be averted before hand. And tags will always become a problem of all SE sites. If you have come from any site you know ...
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Unify tag names
Many of our tag names are pretty inconsistent. So we e.g. have:
text-editors, html-editor, audio-editing, video-editing, image-processing, image-editing, image-editor
and several others in this line....
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Answers with broken links to software that is no longer available
Six years ago I asked a question for recommendations for Firefox extensions: Firefox extension to copy the title and URL of the page to the clipboard. Since then, Firefox completely changed the way ...
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2015 Community Moderator Election
The 2015 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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Should we really attach the "desktop-client" tag to all questions for desktop use?
I just stumbled upon this in our review queue:
Is it really useful/necessary to point this out for every question? Don't the other tags make the issue clear? Or is this a good thing for filtering by ...
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Information that every question needs to include
Every question needs to include some basic information:
The functionality of the requested software
On which operating system(s) the software needs to work (or indicate that it is a web-app)
Price ...
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Burn the "plug-in" tag, too
We got rid of the plugin tag some years ago (Burn the "plugin" tag).
Now there is the plug-in tag.
As it’s used on more than 20 questions, I guess it would be best that a mod deletes the ...
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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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Software Recommendations updated site theme is ready for testing!
As part of implementing the new unified themes across the network, we're gradually rolling out updated site themes for each site. As of today, we have enabled your updated site theme for testing.
If ...
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2018 Community Moderator Election
The 2018 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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Question edit by anonymous user
There was a review for a suggested edit by an anonymous user. To me it seems like the OP was editing after a logout due to the writing style, so I approved it.
While I wonder a bit that anonymous ...
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Change [iphone-app] to [iphone], like [android]
The android tag and iphone-app tags should be brought into alignment. I recommend changing iphone-app to just iphone. Do others agree?
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Tag Synonym Request: pictures -> images
I was in the process of creating a question on SR and was about to add the tag 'pictures' when I thought, let me check if there is a tag for images, which sure enough there was.
So then it got me ...
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Tag merge feedback requested: file-browser and file-management tags
Izzy recently noticed that our community currently has a file-browser tag (1 question) and a file-management tag (395 questions).
Would the community like to merge file-browser into file-management ...
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"optimization" tag
The optimization tag has no definition and was added to 31 questions.
It’s not clear to me what it should/could represent, and if it makes sense on all of the questions that currently have it. Many ...
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How to handle half-and-half questions?
What is the best way to handle half-and-half questions?
For example, part of this question belongs on SuperUser and part belongs here:
Retroactively download a history of all URLs I have visited in ...
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"Ask Question" functionality: Essential details for every question
Almost every question should specify the operating system(s) and whether the recommendation request is for gratis or commercial software.
Many questions fail to include this information, which then ...
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Is "Is there a tool to convert PHP from higher version to lower version" on-topic?
I've posted a question earlier which was downvoted without any comments.
From the FAQ, the question seems to be exactly the kind of questions that are on-topic. I've even mentioned the "specific ...
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How should we deal with question asking for a "project-like"(full system) software
Question asking for a software with such specific elements and business rules, like the one asked by @Chris where he ask for tours booking portal.
That is one Portal (as himself states), with ...
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3-vote close - how's it going?
Part of understanding the impact of three-vote closure is to understand what impact it's having on y'all. I'd like to ask anyone who feels up to it to write an answer to this question and to tell us ...
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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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Combined HW/SW rec (system invokes both that can work together). Where to ask?
I originally asked this question about hypervisors and vGPU support on Server Fault, but it was deemed unsuitable, and perhaps seen as too close to asking for a recommendation. The question wasn't ...
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Is suggesting one app multiple times with more than a half in the answers talking about my usage acceptable?
Yesterday I posted a bunch of answers recommending a particular software. Some of them were deleted for not being tailored to the specific questions, and I agreed with it. But they still aren't ...
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On which site should I post?
A few years ago, I implemented a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay-tolerant_networking project.
This is not exactly mainstream, although not ridiculously esoteric.
At the time, we used $200 ...
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What's the correct answer to this review item?
I was reviewing this and I'm not sure what I should answer.
With 2 downvotes, it's certainly not very helpful. I would downvote as well, because "implement yourself" without giving any details like ...
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The tags [fitness] and [sport]
The fitness tag is currently used on 7 questions, the sport tag is currently used on 8 questions. Both lack a tag excerpt.
Should these be separate tags? If yes, how do we define them?
Somewhat ...
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Can I ask for recommendations for software that's intended as an example (think "hello world" of technology)?
I'm looking into learning more about specific technology, so I'd like to find some simple implementation of it that, while not feature-rich, can be read by somewhat unprepared person. Is question ...
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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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Increase max number of allowed tags on this site
When asking for recommendations, I often find I use up most of my tags on categorization along several common dimensions. For example: linux, gui, gratis, open-source - that's already four tags before ...
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How can I focus my Kijiji RSS feed question?
To clarify my question has not been officially asked. I just know it has issues that need to be fixed before it is asked officially.
I have a question that is really a collection of several. That ...
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Should this question be migrated to Super User?
This question should be a Super User question.
His WiFi connection is broken after being manually disabled for a while, and he's hoping there is a software way to fix it. It's not really a software ...
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Can I please ask this question here?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67902812/is-there-any-prebuilt-library-text-file-for-a-chat-bot-response
It was closed because they said software recommendation is off topic.
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Filtering questions
Before asking a question, I am trying to ensure that it is not a duplicate, by searching accepted answers.
I click the appropriate tag, select filter and see ...
In case, it's not clear, I added the ...
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What does the community think about creating a [sensors] tag (or one or more tags like it)?
Our community currently has a gps tag, but nothing for other types of sensors, such as gyroscopes, accelerometers, temperature gauges, step counters, proximity sensors, and light sensors.
What do you ...
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Asking question about upgrades and versions of software, would this be on topic here?
I have spent the last hour or so going over questions on the site and here on meta. I am pretty sure if I was to ask the question on Stack Overflow or Code Review it would get closed as off topic or ...
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new tag for code-formatter or code-reformatter?
i was asking about a software recommendation for a code formatter or code reformatter. similar to clang-format: In centos-7, are there any reformatters for Python language?
but i didn't see any good ...
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Required tags on meta are a little heavy
The required tags on meta feel a heavy and dark, and they're a little distracting:
Could we make them have the same background and text color as 'normal' tags, but with a slight border?
color: #...
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Do we need the "search" tag?
The tag search has no definition.
We have other tags text-search and search-engine.
Do we really need search?
if so, what is its definition?
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Where should I ask about the capabilities of certain node modules?
I have a question about my Software Recommendations Stack Exchange post: Is it possible to launch puppeteer from a web-based application?
Hello! My above-linked post includes a question related to ...
