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Are questions about terminology and canonical definitions on topic here? [duplicate]

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The community needs your support! Can you provide it?

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Drive-by downvoters?

discussion down-votes

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I'm resigning as a moderator from all Stack Exchange sites

discussion moderation moderators

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Stack Overflow for Teams is now an official sponsor for Software Engineering

discussion sponsored-sites

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What's wrong about this question?

discussion deleted-questions

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Can you help me in finding a way to phrase or a community where I can have an answer to the following question?

discussion support

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Where does my git question go?

discussion faq-proposed site-rec

modified Sep 6 at 16:03 Doc Brown 145k

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Is discussion of models for hiring, promoting, and reviewing developers on-topic discussion?

discussion on-topic-definition off-topic

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On the troubles of naming and terminology

discussion faq closed-questions name-that-thing

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Why questions about “the correct way” are too broad

discussion scope best-practice

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Can I ask about changes in Programming Language version changes here?

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answered Aug 11 at 21:57 Thomas Owens♦ 63.3k

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What can be done about repetitive posting of homework questions?

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answered Aug 5 at 14:47 Thomas Owens♦ 63.3k

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Abuses of closing and deleting posts suppress normal participations: call for moderation on abuses from privilleged users

discussion complaint abuse

answered Jul 25 at 12:21 Ewan 48.4k

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Open letter to students with homework problems

discussion faq questions homework-dump

modified Jul 19 at 15:37 Lightness Races in Orbit 7,906

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Community Promotion Ads - 2017

discussion community-ads

modified Jul 19 at 5:28 Glorfindel 2,503

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What is “not constructive”?

discussion close-reasons specific-question

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Community Promotion Ads - 2015 [duplicate]

discussion community-ads

modified Jul 18 at 5:44 Glorfindel 2,503

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About that “Good Subjective Bad Subjective” blog post and Programmers

support subjective site-definition bad-questions low-quality-posts

modified Jul 18 at 5:42 Glorfindel 2,503

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no 'edit' option for Q&A at Programmers meta

bug status-bydesign

modified Jul 15 at 22:59 Glorfindel 2,503

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Suggestions for questions begging for a “Let Me Google That For You” link

discussion questions lmgtfy

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What's the point of 'Unanswered' link?

discussion support

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“Most common “Y2K-style” bugs today” … Keep or Delete?

discussion off-topic scope

answered Jul 15 at 19:02 Community♦ 1

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Why has my question been considered off topic and deleted?

discussion

answered Jul 10 at 18:06 Thomas Owens♦ 63.3k

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Is flagging one comment as not needed anymore enough?

support

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My question was simultaneously answered, put on hold, and finally deleted. Why, and how can I improve my question?

support closed-questions questions moderators improvement

modified Jun 30 at 7:43 Doc Brown 145k

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Why there's not quick acess to our favorite questions?

feature-request

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Discuss this ${blog}

discussion close-reasons

modified Jun 21 at 12:01 amon 95.8k

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Tag Synonyms / Merging: Estimates

discussion status-completed tags tag-synonyms tag-merge

modified Jun 20 at 16:13 Thomas Owens♦ 63.3k

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What can be done about the misuse of the “primarily opinion-based” close vote?

discussion

modified Jun 16 at 6:36 Doc Brown 145k

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Question closed for duplicate - while the reason why I though the duplicate was not a duplicate is removed?

discussion

answered Jun 14 at 17:23 Community♦ 1

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Tag Clean up: The [static] tag could do with some attention

discussion tags clean-up

modified Jun 14 at 9:56 ChrisF♦ 37.8k

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First off-topic close reason text should be updated for new Stack Overflow phrasing

feature-request status-completed close-reasons off-topic

modified Jun 13 at 16:58 Thomas Owens♦ 63.3k

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How else should I have asked my question in order to not get deleted

support asking-questions

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How can I ask this question better? [duplicate]

discussion questions

asked Jun 6 at 15:59 AlexMA 346

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Have the mods started censoring close votes?

support moderators

answered Jun 3 at 13:17 Thomas Owens♦ 63.3k

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What goes on Software Engineering (previously known as Programmers)? A guide for Stack Overflow

discussion faq migration scope site-rec

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Why was my valid edit rejected?

discussion tags moderation editing

answered May 28 at 0:55 Community♦ 1

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Why was this question directly closed as primarily opinion based and directly removed? [duplicate]

discussion closed-questions close-reasons deleted-questions

answered May 25 at 14:09 amon 95.8k

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How to deal with cross-site duplicate closed posts

discussion support moderation

answered May 19 at 13:09 Doc Brown 145k

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Historical lock (or deletion) for these questions?

discussion

answered May 18 at 10:25 Thomas Owens♦ 63.3k

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We are no longer accepting questions from this account

discussion support moderation moderators suspensions

answered May 17 at 9:12 Thomas Owens♦ 63.3k

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Tag merge / synonym request: [modelling] → [modeling]

support status-completed tag-synonyms tag-merge

modified May 16 at 9:14 Thomas Owens♦ 63.3k

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Would “Has <programming practice> ever gone badly wrong” questions be on topic here?

discussion

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The real borderline for “Opinion based” in Software Engineering

discussion close-reasons subjective opinion-based

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Example of incorrect close voting

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answered Apr 30 at 10:00 Doc Brown 145k

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Should we request a question wizard for questions on Software Engineering?

discussion feature-request

answered Apr 27 at 12:56 amon 95.8k

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Am I overreacting when ordered to stop violating rules I didn't violate?

discussion

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