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Is LeadTools spamming?
Thank you for your meta post, Thomas.
I share your concerns.
I believe it is best, as a community, to openly and thoughtfully determine how to deal with this somewhat unique situation. By doing so, ...
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Found a copy of an answer here on another site. Are they copying SE? Is it legal?
Looking at this more (and reading the comments below), these are missing the required author attribution - links to the author's profile. It should be reported as described in A site (or scraper) is ...
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Long-time spammer happens to be on-topic. Delete or not?
Vote/flag based on the content, not on the user. If people are downvoting or flagging this because of who posted, that is user targeting, which is against the rules on Stack Exchange sites.
If the ...
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2018 Community Moderator Election Results
Thank you to the community for voting me as your new moderator.
Many thanks to Undo for his great job as moderator and for helping to keep our community strong.
A special thank you to Journeyman ...
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New Site Design!
Looks great Pawel!
Your design is:
Clear
Visually appealing
Simple
Easy to read
Reasonably friendly to people with limited eyesight
Works for people with all types of color blindness
Low bandwidth
...
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Including cloud-based services for software recommendations?
In my opinion, it makes sense that cloud-based software (SaaS) recommendations be on-topic on this Stack Exchange website.
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Is it allowed to request software that breaks a service's terms of service (TOS)?
We do not enforce agreements between third parties - and we shouldn't set that precedent.
You're free to downvote, comment, and refrain from answering, but it's unlikely that any moderation action ...
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Are questions for service providers welcome at our site?
As stated in most of the above mentioned question implicitly or even half-was explicitly: SR is about recommending software, not providers/companies. So asking for a service provider (be it VPN, DNS, ...
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Small capital characters in posts
In my opinion, the small caps Unicode characters shouldn’t be used for normal text in our posts (unless, of course, it’s about these characters):
In the browser search (Ctrl + f, e.g., in Firefox and ...
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Is asking for Wordpress plugins on-topic?
I don't see why Wordpress plugins should be an exception here. For reference:
Would plugin recommendations about Minecraft be on topic? → OK
How should we treat questions about plugins and such “...
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Should we disable the Roomba?
No, for a simple reason. There's another problem here:
has a score of 0
The Roomba (or this task, specifically) only deletes questions with score = 0. That means there's a very simple solution, ...
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Random inappropriate necro-deletion of decent, helpful, upvoted answer
What you don't see is the six other poor quality and sometimes actually spammy answers there. Granted its a video conversion question, and they attract spammers. You're not one. Awesome.
We've ...
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Is it just me or does the site have few visitors?
With a rep of 25k+, you could check the site statistics. As that's not a real answer to you, there's always the Stack Exchange Data Explorer: stats for our site can be found here. Especially for your ...
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Software Recommendations New Site Design
For a site with such an abstract, hard-to-design-for topic, you've done great. A few minor nitpicks:
The usercard feels a little lopsided:
Seems like there should be more whitespace on the left ...
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Did the priviledges rise when we graduated?
Not exactly when we graduated, but when we got our "graduated design" (which was a little later). While in beta, levels for a site are significantly lower to help it build up. Once it's graduated and ...
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Can/should we recommend software that might be illegal (at some places)?
It is irrelevant whether software is/can be illegal, because that is defined by local authorities. As a user, I can't determine where an asker lives and which laws he should follow.
Furthermore, any ...
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Recent proliferation of "How to code?" questions & SuperUser questions
On 2018-12-19, the test of the Ask Question Wizard started at Stack Overflow.
In the first step, this wizard asks the users what type of question they have:
If they select "I need a software ...
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Asking questions about potentially "bad" software?
helping someone with a task that could turn out to be, somewhat of a malicious task, is that something we should answer here in our community?
“That could turn out to be (…) malicious” is not a ...
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How many moderators will we have after the election?
As per the mod election page, 3 moderators will be elected. The previous pro-tem team has the option of standing as moderators, but it looks like Undo's the only one of the old mods standing. He'll ...
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Design Ideas for this site. Again
Please make sure that the contrast between the text and the background is decently high (e.g., at least respecting the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0). This can be checked easily ...
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I am sad about [api]
I think this tag is redundant and should be removed. We should encourage askers to use more meaningful tags:
a library to embed in their application: Tag as library
a web service to call from their ...
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Are mobile app recommendations on topic?
Not at all, Android apps are software for phones. These types of questions are on topic at Software Recommendations. Please make sure your question meets the Question Quality Guidelines and use the ...
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Do you want a migration path for recommendation questions from Drupal Answers?
My opinion on this differs from Izzy's a bit - I'd be fine with a standard migration path from Drupal, and from other sites where we can mutually decide it'd be a good thing.
We've grown enough that ...
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Can you merge [browser] with [web-browser]?
Thank you for posting this. I noticed this the other day when I was performing a bunch of tag maintenance, and it is on my list of things to address.
Prompted by your post, I took a look at the 14 ...
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Is asking for an extension on any browser too broad?
I don’t think that such a question would be necessarily too broad.
Deciding if it’s too broad would depend on the given requirements, so there’s really no difference between questions restricting it ...
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