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2020: a year in moderation

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Can I ask for feedback on a list of ideas and thoughts, and the pros and cons I could think of, about designing a chess game?

discussion on-topic-definition design off-topic

modified Jan 13 at 6:00 Doc Brown 167k

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How make a question about feedback for an university exercises?

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Negatively scored questions should be more aggressively hidden from the homepage

support questions down-votes

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Enable automatic syntax highlighting for [haskell]

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How to make a question about Elastic Search on topic?

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modified Jan 1 at 7:13 Doc Brown 167k

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Question about “What does XYZ Cloud Technologies, Inc. offer that Big Tech clouds don't?”

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modified Dec 29 '20 at 22:39 Doc Brown 167k

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Why was my question deleted which was closed within the past 48 hours

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answered Dec 25 '20 at 11:13 zjk 101

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Is this question a good candidate for reopening?

discussion closed-questions

modified Dec 14 '20 at 15:13 Doc Brown 167k

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Is it allowed to ask questions about interview design questions? [duplicate]

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answered Dec 6 '20 at 23:28 amon 106k

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I would like to have several tag wiki edits reviewed

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Reopen UUID collision probability question?

discussion reopen-request

modified Nov 19 '20 at 15:43 Doc Brown 167k

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Unclear question is clarified in comment, later comment is deleted and contradictory clarification added to question

discussion questions editing comments answers

modified Nov 4 '20 at 11:27 Community♦ 1

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Question is not a duplicate: can we reopen?

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answered Oct 26 '20 at 13:09 Doc Brown 167k

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How to get at least a couple of examples of a topic on which “whole books have been written”?

discussion close-reasons list-questions

answered Oct 14 '20 at 0:52 Thomas Owens♦ 70.2k

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What is actually on-topic for this site, if anything?

discussion specific-question

answered Oct 13 '20 at 16:48 Thomas Owens♦ 70.2k

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Can't ask question so what next? [duplicate]

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modified Sep 18 '20 at 2:12 jimjim 825

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Could those comments be moved to chat, and is this the right way to ask it?

discussion comments chat

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Deleting low rated question to bypass the “You have reached your limit of questions” [duplicate]

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answered Sep 8 '20 at 23:08 Thomas Owens♦ 70.2k

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Is this a question with answers or should I look elsewhere

discussion questions

answered Sep 4 '20 at 16:06 Thomas Owens♦ 70.2k

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Where can I have subjective discussions about programming?

discussion faq off-topic subjective

modified Sep 2 '20 at 11:22 Doc Brown 167k

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This question already has answers… where?

bug duplicate-questions

answered Aug 27 '20 at 15:50 Thomas Owens♦ 70.2k

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How to ask for a list of usable criteria

discussion specific-question scope

modified Aug 22 '20 at 8:39 Doc Brown 167k

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How can I improve this question about software architecture?

discussion asking-questions

answered Aug 8 '20 at 7:14 Doc Brown 167k

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Should there be a redirect from se.stackexchange.com?

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Should code smell and anti-pattern be synonomous in Software engineering stack exchange?

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answered Aug 4 '20 at 16:41 Jörg W Mittag 90.4k

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A “welcome to software engineering” comment for questionable questions

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What is spam, according to Stack Exchange and Software Engineering.SE?

discussion specific-question spam

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“You have reached your question limit” issue

support

answered Jul 1 '20 at 13:06 Thomas Owens♦ 70.2k

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Is programming history on topic?

discussion on-topic-definition faq-proposed

modified Jun 25 '20 at 14:27 Thomas Owens♦ 70.2k

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Interview questions are off-topic. What about questions that I, as the interviewer, have?

discussion on-topic-definition

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Robert Harvey's reputation history is lying?

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answered Jun 17 '20 at 22:08 Karl Bielefeldt 136k

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Suggestions to make my question about structuring a Python script more on-topic?

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modified Jun 10 '20 at 13:55 Doc Brown 167k

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21k rep but “Not enough reputation to answer or unprotect”

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Cloud computing vs. Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service

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Now that 3 close votes has been proven and implemented on Stack Overflow, can we have the same on Software Engineering, please?

feature-request status-review closed-questions vote-to-reopen

answered Jun 1 '20 at 18:39 gnat 21.7k

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When every question pertaining to Software Engineering has been more or less asked, do we broaden the scope of questions allowed to be asked?

discussion closed-questions scope

modified May 31 '20 at 16:44 candied_orange 80k

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Is this the right place for a question about hosting e-commerce improvement

support questions

modified May 31 '20 at 6:15 Doc Brown 167k

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Can we please stop with the wanton deletions

support deleted-questions

answered May 30 '20 at 14:59 Thomas Owens♦ 70.2k

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Should we add a warning to tag legal

discussion tags

modified May 30 '20 at 14:56 Community♦ 1

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Can we also get rid of [design-decisions]?

discussion status-completed tags

modified May 26 '20 at 14:00 Thomas Owens♦ 70.2k

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Adjustments to some automated moderator flags

feature-request status-completed flagging protected-questions moderator-tools

modified May 22 '20 at 21:48 gnat 21.7k

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How do I rename a tag I created?

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answered May 20 '20 at 5:25 Doc Brown 167k

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What is the process after a closed question was been edited to meet all the requirements but the reviewers don't react?

support moderation off-topic reopen-request

answered May 14 '20 at 10:27 Thomas Owens♦ 70.2k

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Can we decide to get rid of [decisions]?

discussion status-completed tags

modified May 13 '20 at 12:47 Thomas Owens♦ 70.2k

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Community Promotion Ads — 2020

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Making “best practices” questions more palatable: how to ask a “best practice” question that is acceptable to the community?

discussion best-practice

modified Apr 22 '20 at 12:22 Doc Brown 167k

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