Questions tagged [discussion]
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2025: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we bid farewell to the year that's concluded and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of ...
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Virtual fridge good, Virtual library bad
OK so neither of these questions are the best in the world. But they are both essentially the same. "here is my idea, what do you think?" one gets upvotes and answers one gets deleted ...
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Since "what is the best practice/industry standard"-style questions are poorly received, when is it acceptable to edit that part out?
We've seen and discussed this a lot over the years. Most recently, Ewan posted another meta question tangentially related to this where a string of questions were down-voted. The answer to the meta ...
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Downvoting/closing tusharRawat's recent questions reflects badly on the community
tusharRawat has posted 3/4 similar questions about his ecommerce product. They all have lots of detail and describe specific problems but they are all getting close votes and the usual -1 downvote.
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Should comments be edited out from answers?
I'm worried I'm overreaching in my edit in First Answers queue.
In particular, it removes paragraphs:
i don't know why this old question popped up, but i do have a few comments on the ideas you bring ...
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I've stepped down as a moderator
You may have noticed that I've stepped down as a moderator on Software Engineering. It actually went a couple of months ago, but I completely forgot to post this then, so I'm doing it now - better ...
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What's wrong with the Curious badge? [duplicate]
According to the hint on the Curious badge, I need a positive question record.
I have 16 non-deleted questions, 9 of them have a positive score, 1 has a zero score and 6 have a negative score.
The ...
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What is required to be in a question on Software Engineering?
I'm very active on the Code Review site and I know what is required of a question there (the code must be included in the question). I've looked through the help/asking section and I've searched the ...
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Possible improvement to user experience on help page
While I've been a member for a long time, I have only asked 1 question and that was a long time ago. I decided to review the guidelines in the help pages before I ask a new question.
I was looking at ...
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Please don't make or approve tiny little edits to old questions
A question posted 12 years ago ended up today on the home page. I thought, originally, that it probably received a spam answer—which happens occasionally—but it appeared that it all has to do with two ...
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You might be able to help me: Pre-post question review
I have a question in mind for the main site. The question has several parts that ultimately culminate in a single document: An Explainer.
I would prefer to not go through all of the work to post the ...
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Why would you close a question that already has answers?
My question Optimizing a "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" parser was closed with this reason:
Right now, your question may contain multiple distinct questions or is too broad to easily address ...
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2025 Community Moderator Election Results
Moderator election #5 on Software Engineering has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderator is:
They will be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for ...
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2025 Community Moderator Election
The 2025 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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2025 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection
The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here.
Software Engineering Stack Exchange is scheduled for an election ...
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