Questions tagged [staging-ground]
The Staging Ground (SG) is an initiative to improve question quality on Stack Overflow by splitting the question-asking process up into distinct phases and by allowing iterative improvement before publication of a question.
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Change the wording for posting straight to Stack Overflow when new users ask
When a "new" user (user eligible to be sent to the Staging Ground) is writing their question, they are presented with the below modal, to chose whether they want their post sent to the ...
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Since Staging Ground exists, do we still need First Question Queue
Under normal circumstances, all first questions should land in staging ground and be refined there. Also Spam is filtered there. Why do we need another queue?
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Question in Staging Ground not closed despite 6 close votes
This question can't be closed for some reason, even though it has already 6 29 31 close votes, while normally two are enough for questions in SG.
And for every close vote on these unclosable questions ...
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Staging Ground not trapping short ambiguous beginner questions. Why not?
I have noticed several reputation one single sentence questions go straight into normal space on Stack Overflow without first passing through Staging Ground recently. This one is a particularly bad ...
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"Select your next badge" dialog has unavailable badges listed in the Available tab
This is what the badge progress UI looks like for my user:
If I understand correctly, the ones circled in red are impossible for an established user to be awarded, because we do not see the "ask&...
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Count raising a flag as a review in staging ground
in the case of spam in a staging ground question, which happens a lot from my observation, raising a flag for spam is at this point not counted as a review. I think it should count as a review for ...
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The Staging Ground keeps the [gemini] tag from being automatically destroyed
About two weeks ago I cleaned up the various usages of gemini that referred to several different technologies. However, the tag still exists with zero questions on the main site.
It does exist on ...
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Why has my Staging Ground question received no review for a year?
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At staging-ground/78708157, I asked:
Do any browsers support rendering webpages from data encoded in a URI?
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Sometimes, I want to share a basic, pure HTML file with someone, which I ...
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Unable to move comments to chat on Staging Ground posts
We got an autoflag on a SG post about too many comments. Upon trying to move comments to chat we get a cryptic error. Tried by 2 mods and a CM to the same effect
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Titles of spam posts on the staging ground are not redacted
On the main site, the titles of spam questions are replaced with generic text on the question page:
This question was marked as spam or rude or abusive and is therefore not shown
However on the ...
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What is Staging Ground question locking?
What I refer to is the banner that the undermentioned depicts: [1]
This post is temporarily locked while a community member reviews it. Please check back later.
I see a discussion about them. However,...
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Why is it possible to post a first question without any review? [duplicate]
The question which makes me to ask about reviewing first questions is this: Excel VBA , copy sheet to new wb and auto save to same location as original wb
While this is not the worst that I have ever ...
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Is the Daily Practice badge requirement too high?
The Daily Practice badge description sets its 50 questions reviewed threshold as being the "daily goal" in staging ground. I find that even earnestly reviewing questions for multiple hours a ...
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Feature-request: Selectively migrate Staging-Ground comments when approving a question
I know SG-comments are for getting the question to a state that it is answerable. But I frequently see comments attempting to answer the question or giving leads to what might be the problem. The only ...
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Is it OK to delete link in question during staging ground review
During reviewing a question on Staging Ground, the asker referring to a link where the code can be found, but the question didn't contain any link.
This happens very often, so I wanted to add a ...
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