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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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A Moose, Some Silly Putty ... And A Desperate Plea For Help
The Eyes Have It
I have many eyes. I see all...
Turn me around...
Possible trigger:
Be the first to view and comment on a post, which is later edited and becomes +2. 5 times.
Bonus SVG:
<svg ver …
46
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Let's Plan the Second Iteration of the Stack Exchange Quality Project!
Tag specific question requirements
As proposed in Tag specific question requirements
We currently have some handy tag-specific alerts when asking questions with certain tags. These are for certain pro …
27
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Is 'Mmmm Bacon' hat in poor taste?
I couldn't disagree more (and I was vegan for 12 years, my wife and most of my family are also vegan or vegetarian) — but there's nothing wrong with that.
You are perfectly within your rights to be o …
31
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3
answers
243
views
Should I do anything about self-deleted spam?
I just came across this post:
It's spam (It's a vague statement related to the question, but it's not an answer, and the link points to a commercial sales page). It was posted and instantly self-dele …
34
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A Moose, Some Silly Putty ... And A Desperate Plea For Help
Rep Hunter
As fashioned by a grumpy cat:
Possible trigger:
Post 5 answers, all accepted, in a single day.
...
It is, (in case you didn't realise, and for posterity's sake in case the icon changes,) …
19
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Is http://idownvotedbecau.se counter productive? Can it be better used?
I've only seen these links used maybe twice, but I really dislike them.
Used as a link-only comment it comes across as lazy, snarky and off-putting (whatever the actual intent is; and I'm sure they a …
12
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Punishment for standalone anonymous down-votes
For further discussion on the topic see (amongst various others):
Encouraging people to explain downvotes
Make it cost more to downvote without comment; make it hurt to leave a crap comment
Downvotes …
5
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What if I have a question that should be on both Stack Overflow and health site of Stack Exc...
Do you really want programmers giving you advice on medical issues? Likewise do you need medical expertise to help you code your app?
You not only need different questions, but more than likely vastl …
5
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How are people able to answer questions so quickly with long answers?
It's worth pointing out that code in answers could be existing code. I know I have answered questions with what would look like a relatively large amount of code that I happened to already have writte …
11
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Should I restrain myself from downvoting answers on question where I have answered as well
If it is a bad answer and you would have downvoted had you not also answered, then by all means downvote. But, if you're downvoting bad answers you should upvote good answers too.
If you vote—vote fa …
10
votes
Does frequently editing questions with proper reason lead to suspension?
Editing is an import part of how Q&A works on Stack Exchange and limiting the number edits certainly isn't a good idea.
As others have said, edits should improve the question, an important point thou …
10
votes
Accepted
Meta question with link from the future in original post?
The question was migrated from Stack Overflow. The complete revision history of migrated questions pre-migration isn't visible on the new site, and the revision history there only shows the most recen …
14
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Why is there rep on Meta?
What is the reason for having rep on Meta?
The same reason as having rep anywhere else. It's a useful way to gauge a users standing on the site and a way to control privileges and community moderati …
8
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Accepted
Does editing to replace "reputation" and "rep" with "reputation points" make sense?
I agree that adding "points" is a bit redundant, I'm not sure it actually harms readability though. I would reject a suggested edit that only changed "rep" to "reputation", with or without "points". I …
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Editing posts of users who are deceased
If you personally would like to refrain from editing or be more considerate then that is perfectly fine, and admirable, but that is a personal choice of yours...
As a function of Stack Exchange that' …