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Questions that may not necessarily have a clear-cut right or wrong answer and are often subjective. If your question isn't a bug report, feature request, or request for support, it's probably a discussion.

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We're testing advertisements across the network

If you see any ads that are inappropriate or have any questions about this experiment, please let me know by starting a new question... I am not quite comfortable with above. Using meta to report …
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What does constructive criticism of a design change look like?

You seem to be concerned about negative / not constructive feedback to recent announcements. Consider that matters of reciprocity may play some role here. To find out if this can be related, I studie …
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The second draft of our Code of Conduct is available for feedback and review

Please replace "learning" with "knowledge-sharing" (or with something else that doesn't feel like obscuring that Stack Exchange is about questions and answers - say, "learning site community"). T …
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Huge close votes review queue on Stack Overflow

Which action could be taken to clean it up? TL;DR Educate active reviewers to filter SO Close Votes queue by single close reason, with "duplicate" and "too localized" additionally filtered by the …
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2014 SO Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection

How many Close Vote reviews have you done? As a reviewer, how do you feel about size of The Queue reaching over 110k? The community considers this a problem, as indicated eg by over 100 upvotes cast …
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Exit strategies for "chameleon questions"

Here is the approach that has been proven to work pretty well for me. 1, 2 As soon as I sense that Oh, but, now there's another problem I reply with comment like this: Looks like <refer to origin …
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Some changes to the profile while we make it responsive

Suggest to temporary revert this whole change network-wide and instead, do a trial run of it limited to one of "big meta" (MSE or MSO). This would hopefully catch most painful issues and give an oppor …
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Revisiting the "Hot Network Questions" feature, what are our shared goals for having it?

While we're at it, there is another myth that hasn't been mentioned yet but is quite likely to pop up in further discussion, namely that it is prohibitively difficult to track and share meaningful information … The starting post of this very discussion seems to be yet another case of that kind. Here I am talking about obsession with problematic titles and how it is difficult to deal with these. …
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Empowering tag-badge holders part II - let's look at silver?

Following dupehammer spirit, it looks natural to give them 10-20 see details below extra close votes to bang in their tag. Note how this will also boost dupehammer holders power, allowing them to do t …
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How can I encourage Stack Overflow to rein in the 'subjective' vigilantes?

I think that if I could ask a question to a group of skilled programmers sitting around a table at lunch, and get interesting, valuable answers, then I don't care whether the question or the answers …
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It’s time to retire the term “rep-whore”

It's time... ...it's time to keep the promise made three months ago: we'll start looking at increasing the number of close votes based on rep You seem to be blaming users for unnecessary ru …
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The second draft of our Code of Conduct is available for feedback and review

Since CoC proposes warning and suspending users for inappropriate comments, consider respective adjustment in software to make this process more transparent. Suggest to show them (deleted) comments th …
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Is cross-posting wrong (to an external site)?

I like the way how this is addressed at Java Ranch: Be Forthright When Cross Posting To Other Sites ...keep in mind that this is not generally in the interests of the posters who might be responding …
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Wiping votes on deletion of highly active accounts (-865 points on "User was removed")

As far as I can tell, this is not how deletion of such user accounts is supposed to happen. The procedure has been outlined by SE developer in an answer to similar question as follows: When we de …
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What is the origin of "6 to 8 weeks" and is it really the Crazy Frog?

Searching web for six to eight weeks leads to Muppet Babies TV series, Episode 603: Six-to-Eight Weeks which sounds painfully familiar: The Babies anxiously await the arrival of a playhouse that N …
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