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Are rudeness rules necessary or desirable?

I have been suspended from skeptics recently for "rudeness". I have written the following on physics regarding rudeness rules and rudeness in general: In any human society, whenever a ...
Ron Maimon's user avatar
148 votes
7 answers
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Is it time to re-evaluate the Facebook-Stack Overflow partnership?

It has been 6 months since the Facebook-StackOverflow partnership and mini-site were launched. Is there any data that can be shared publicly about whether the Facebook mini-site has been a success or ...
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13 votes
4 answers
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Stack Exchange network with overlapping questions [duplicate]

This is a big feature request, so I'm not suggesting an immediate implementation or conversion. For the future of SE however, I believe it solves some existing issues which might only grow bigger as ...
Steven Jeuris's user avatar
54 votes
3 answers
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Asking on Multiple Sites: "Soft-Migration"

See also: Collaborate With Chemistry.se? Many of the newer sites have a certain degree of overlap. With the creation of Chem.SE, I noticed quite a few questions on Physics.SE which could have ...
Manishearth's user avatar
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Introduce sub-communities (or “Portals”) to prevent fragmentation

There often are complaints from smaller and niche areas in the field of programming that their needs aren't met on SO. The most frequent complaints include: Users from niche tags can be brilliant, ...
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3 answers
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Stack Overflow tag-filtered subsites

It would be cool if something like http://nhibernate.stackoverflow.com or http://nhibernate.stackoverflow.com/filtered/nhibernate gave you a filtered version of SO, which only searched questions with ...
mcintyre321's user avatar
8 votes
3 answers
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How are new Stack Overflow mini-sites created?

With the announcement of Facebook.StackOverflow, what are the critera/how does one go about getting a new mini-site created? Assuming that it is not possible today, are there plans to make it so in ...
Eric Bloch's user avatar
2 votes
3 answers
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Are there plans for more things like facebook.stackoverflow.com? How about this feature on other Stack Exchanges? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How are new Stack Overflow mini-sites created? Personally, I would like to see this rolled out. I think several sites have logical groupings. For example, on Stack Overflow, ...
Thomas Owens's user avatar
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4 votes
2 answers
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Smart Tags: A solution for cross posting and community sorting?

On what community questions board should I put I question? This does seem like a huge human organization question. For example, there is the systems administration tool, Puppet, which uses a ...
Charles Merriam's user avatar
28 votes
1 answer
340 views

Is a mini-site approach a solution to these Area 51 proposals?

TL;DR Subtopics of sites in beta are themselves heading towards beta. Is the sub-site method not a more appropriate implementation? Comments both on Area 51 and B&CG that seem to indicate that ...
Stephen's user avatar
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Are more mini-sites coming? [duplicate]

I was wondering if there are any plans to implement more mini-sites like the Facebook one, or something similar. I'm hoping that we'll see topic-specific sites (as opposed to necessarily company-...
Lance Roberts's user avatar
1 vote
1 answer
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About having a subdomain to stackoverflow [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to build my own XXXX.stackoverflow.com Q&A? I have seen facebook.stackoverflow.com which is a facebook section in stack overflow. Is this some special stuff made for ...
Pål Tønder's user avatar
2 votes
0 answers
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Stack Exchange: Should some communities simply be "sub-communities" of other sites?

While browsing through Area 51 I came across a proposal for an Ubuntu Stack Exchange site, and a similar Linux/UNIX site. To me, this is obviously a subset of superuser.com. There is a small debate ...
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