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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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Allow per-site close reasons that are not off-topic
About 2/3 of the questions that we close are due to a lack of clear requirements or purpose. Ideally, we would have a close reason that states something like
Questions must describe the purpose for ...
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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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Impossible captcha
I was reading some questions/answers on the site, and then I ended on a "Human verification" page, with a captcha (recaptcha). While the captchas were easily readable, I had to try around 30 times ...
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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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The active question page shows 0 ongoing bounties when in fact there is one
I just noticed that the active question page shows 0 on-going bounties, but there actually is an on-going one:
If you click on the "featured" tab, it shows the number correctly:
I guess this is ...
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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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“(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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Allow moderators to customize the first line of the editable parts of /about
I took a first go at filling the moderator-editable parts of /about.
It seems to me that the “Ask about…” section doesn't really work as a bullet point list of topics. What I'd like to write is
Ask ...
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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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Lets have some consistency for the Beta Layout of the website
I was reviewing the layout of the website and seems like it isn't consistent over pages, if we take a look at the Home page... We have border-bottom ALMOST overlying the main border of the menu.
Now ...
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Expand the list of sites in the Close Vote reason “Belongs on another site”on the main site
I suggest expanding the list of sites in the Close Vote reason Belongs on another site on the main site. That will at least give the 'offenders' more information than Blatantly off-topic (which they ...
