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Is there a rule of thumb for objective questions asked out of curiosity?
Isaac Moses, the patriarch of Mi Yodeya, wrote something that caught my eye the other day:
[...] the general Stack Exchange directive, expressed in the uneditable part of that section of the ...
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Cross-posting on StackExchange sites
So it's crossed my mind recently in relation to a few of my questions that they would be quite appropriate on more than one Stack Exchange (Area 51) sites. My question is, is it considered ...
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Stack Exchange Community Statistics results: Which questions are the least frequently answered?
Question source: Which questions are the least frequently answered?
Note: the results here are only for Stack Overflow, as that is the most difficult to analyze due to data size. All the queries for ...
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Not the Place for Legal Questions
I'm seeing more and more questions about illegal activity, or the legality of certain activities showing up on the SO-sites. Should the FAQ be amended to state unequivocally that the community is not ...
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What's the opinion on “list” questions?
I'm wondering what the general opinion on "list" questions in the trilogy - example:
List of freely available programming books
Are these good questions? I certainly think so, as they help Stack ...
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1answer
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New questions not in “Newest Questions”
The "newest" tab on the All Questions shows the same questions for the last 15 minutes. I can see the new questions on the Top Questions page.
Screenshot (yes, it's the first page):
Edit: same ...
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1answer
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Is there a Meta-site for Stack Exchange?
There is a meta-site for every Stack Exchange site but is there a general Stack Exchange meta-site where we can talk about the Stack Exchange model?
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Any guidelines to find the “correct place”
Now we have completed the trilogy. Stackoverflow, serverfault and superuser. But in some cases we might face with a problem of selecting the correct place. Specially there might be a question that can ...
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Is it acceptable to reply to the comments/answers on your questions really late on the StackExchange sites?
A lot of times it happens that I post a question there but I fail follow up on it because of my irritating internet connection and/or university commitments and then after a week or so I again ...
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How frequently are new questions indexed by search engines?
How frequently are the trilogy sites indexed by search engines?
Are the more popular trilogy sites indexed more frequently than the others?
What I've asked is a search-engine-independent question, ...
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1answer
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Sort by 'Views' on Main Question Pages Next to 'Votes'
One thing I love about the stack exchange sites, is that I can quickly and easily sort any of the questions by the number of votes. What would be even better is if I could quickly and easily sort by ...
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Where do DBA questions go in the trilogy?
Backing up databases, tuning of database engines, etc. all make sense to me for Server Fault.
But where do questions like this one go?
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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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Stack Exchange network with overlapping questions
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 ...
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Can we do something about these “must have” questions that are proliferating on all four sites?
Mostly on Super User, but not exclusively - there's a lot of these "Must have foos for bar" style questions that are getting huge amounts of answers while the actual useful technical questions that ...
