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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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Should we disallow gender indication in Careers job postings?
This is a German speaking company from Austria. In German the word Developer ("Der Entwickler") has a male gender, which means that it's very common to explicitly add that you welcome all genders. As …
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Is it good practice to refrain from downvoting competing answers?
First of all: I'm not asking that downvoting competing answers should be prevented by the system (there are tons of duplicates regarding this), I'm asking whether you should do it or not.
I have this …
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Are reports of pluralisation bugs welcome?
If I go to the trouble to report a pluralisation bug, will this actually be welcome by the staff or will it just get me the usual quote from Jeff's twitter post:
Dear Next Person Who Opens a Plura …
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Show a graph depicting the review progress over time
The new review tool is very well thought through and even catches "old stuff" which isn't acceptable judging from the quality demands that we expect today in SO.
I was just wondering if this is a Sis …
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Tag policy: include superset tags?
What is the policy on tagging questions with supersets of tags?
For instance, the tag c++ is a superset of c++11 because if a question is tagged c++11 it must by definition have something to do with …
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How does the tag "status-declined" explanation in the faq make any sense?
Perhaps you could try searching for your idea with different search terms, hopefully that will find the original discussion.
This should never happen. …
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Codesynthesis tag referring to a company? [closed]
It was just brought to my attention that somebody introduced a tag excerpt in April 2012 narrowing the tag codesynthesis to a company of that name. It would appear that most questions on that tag are …
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Bug versus Feature? [closed]
So please, provide some discussion or at least explanation regarding this. … I'm okay with a discussion, explaining why the status quo makes sense (despite the aforementioned blog post).
1: I hope I don't need an irony tag for that statement ... …
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Recent Reputation History Changes
Showing rep-changed due to removed up/down-votes and accepted answers could generate confusing noise:
A couple of days/weeks ago a colleague of mine (~10 rep) who apparently didn't quite understand v …
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Can I voluntarily cast a single close vote despite having a gold badge? [duplicate]
Voting to close as duplicate can be done by gold-badge owners without requiring votes from other people ("dupehammer"). This is often sensible and useful. However, is it possible to situationally cast …
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Why is the auto-replace for on-site question-links with the respective question-title only e... [duplicate]
When you paste an url in a question or answer (i.e. a post), its link text is automatically replaced with the title of linked-to question, like so: Replace trilogy raw links with the current question …
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Flagging post that really does not have anything to do with a question and is wrong in addition
I flagged two almost identical posts (first and second) to a question that asked about a non-trivial way to get around a language limitation, which the OP apparently fully understood. It was obviously …
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How can the Area 51 reputation/ privlege system be improved?
Good point. I think a better way to express a user's reputation on area 51 would be to reflect their activity on private beta sites and to a lesser degree on public betas.
More importantly, a user's …
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What is the recommended way to handle questions that are duplicates of questions in a differ... [duplicate]
If you have an SO question A that is a duplicate of question B on SO, it should be closed as such. However, what if question B lives not on SO but on, say, vi.SE?
As far as I know there is no option …
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