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Please stop using SoftwareEngineering.SE as your toilet bowl [closed]

Stack Overflow users have been using the "off topic - belongs on SoftwareEngineering.SE" close reason as an alternative to all the other close reasons. It'd be helpful if people actually read the FAQ ...
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Programmers is about to go live, which questions should we migrate? [closed]

http://programmers.stackexchange.com is probably going live this week, we are very likely to allow migration of questions from Stack Overflow to Programmers. We have the following rules of thumb to ...
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Why was the Programmers site on Stack Exchange created?

Why was Stack Overflow forked into https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/ ? I don't understand this. I think it is stupid ;-)
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Mass clean-up of career-development questions [closed]

There seems to be agreement1 that it's time for career-development to go. As Anna Lear suggested3: Orchestrating a mass clean-up of the questions in the career-development tag is something we ...
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Refuse to accept questions for certain tags [duplicate]

In response to questions like this, can we implement a feature whereby questions cannot be posted to certain tags? For e.g., if someone attempts to post a question to career-development on SO, they (...
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Delete old migrated questions

There are thousands of old questions on SO that got migrated a long time ago and don't add any value to the site. These questions should be deleted. Due to the recently added redirects of deleted ...
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Which site deals with career development questions for programmers? [duplicate]

Is there any site in the network where career development questions about the programming profession can be asked ? I thought Programmer's was the site for it, but that doesn't appear to be the case.
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Change the career-development tag to career-development-deprecated [closed]

See this question. Ideally we should be able to keep a tag, but flag it so that it can no longer be used. Failing that, however, we should just rename this tag so that it's clear that it's an old ...
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Can we merge these tags relating to careers? [closed]

Do these tags mean essentially the same thing? employment jobs - used for job scheduling; should not be merged job-hunting career-development (possibly others) If so, can we pick one and merge the ...
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