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Is the posting of equivalent questions on different Stack Exchange sites discouraged? [closed]

Possible Duplicate: Cross-posting on StackExchange sites Is the posting of conceptually equivalent questions on different Stack Exchange sites discouraged? I am asking for an official ...
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Option to Alphabetize StackExchange Footer

Area 51 and the Stack Exchange in general appear to be developing swimmingly. There's currently Twenty-Eight separate sites in the Stack Exchange footer, and I expect that will only increase over ...
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Confused about biostar, 1.0, 2.0 isn't SE a big family?

Today I knew about the existence of BioStar, a site that I'm quite interested in joining. So, I logged in with the same google openId that I've been using in all the sites. It was quite a surprise to ...
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what's the difference between stackexchange 1.0 and 2.0?

Besides licensing/hosting, is there any technical difference?
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Why don't Stack Exchange sites use HTML <meta> tags?

A cursory look at the source for Stack Overflow sites shows that there aren't any pages on the site that uses the <meta> tag for things like description, keywords, robots et al. Now, I'm aware ...
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Finalize possibility of open sourcing SOIS engine

The possibility of open sourcing the engine has never completely been put to rest but nearly a year after accepting VC funding can we have a final statement on the matter? My expectation is that now ...
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Differentiate between employees and moderators

My understanding of who has diamonds: All moderators have diamonds on the sites they moderate Trilogy moderators also have diamonds on MSO SOIS employees have diamonds everywhere they're needed ...
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Where do you ask your question when you don’t know where to ask?

With the myriad sites of the Stack Exchange network, it will become increasingly likely that many questions will end up in the wrong place and, depending, be ignored or moved. If it's moved, that's ...
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“How To Ask” text is wrong for Stack Exchange Meta sites

At first I thought this was just an error on the Cooking site but it turns out it's like this on all SE metas. If you go to the meta site and click "Ask Question", the sidebar that pops up says (for ...
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Change the error site for previously existing SE-1.0 site that will probably be replaced by an Area 51 proposal

Or: What will happen to the questions at SE-1.0 physics.SO? The site http://physics.stackexchange.com is no longer available, will its contents be migrated to the Physics proposal when it gets ...
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Is there any way to highlight text in the (editable) official FAQ?

Originally in the FAQ, the "target audience" phrase (i.e. "professional and amateur cooks and chefs" on the cooking.se FAQ) had a yellow background. This was accomplished by surrounding it in an HTML ...
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Why can only the moderators see the updated FAQs?

I got all excited today when I saw an "edit" link our cooking SE FAQ and went straight to work on it - even dug up an old post asking for the FAQ to be updated and marked it [status-complete]. Then ...
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SE 2.0 UI: Jargon in the interface. Getting rid of “parent”

I'm continuing my collection of minor UI tirades. Today's rant: getting rid of "Parent". Parent is the name for the core Q&A side of StackExchanges sites. (It's the alternate of "meta"). ...
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What is the biggest challenge facing Stack Exchange?

What is the biggest overall challenge to the success of the various Stack Exchange sites? I'm trying to think of problems holding back, or threatening the success of, the Stack Exchange sites ...