Linked Questions
23 questions linked to/from Structured Tag Cleanup Initiative Phase II
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Can we get a tag-warning for [licensing] and [open-source] tags?
Yesterday, I learned about a feature of the SE sites which was new to me: tag-warnings. It appears to me those would be a perfect match for licensing and open-source, since both tags often indicate ...
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Is the [recruiting] tag on topic?
The recruiting has been around for a while. That tag info appears to have been copied from Wikipedia. It has 14 questions, the 12 oldest of which are closed. Does this tag invite off-topic content?...
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What are [employment] benefits?
Tag employment currently shows 24 9 old questions, all closed and most are of low score / views. What makes it troublesome is that it seems to still attract blatantly off-topic questions (recent ...
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The "Professional Engineers" question has 2/3 reopen votes AND 3/4 delete votes; what's going on here?
Can Software Engineers become certified Professional Engineers (PE)?
This question was closed by the community as off-topic career advice back in June 2014. It has not received any edits aside from ...
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Reconsider historical lock on "How many monitors do you use? Why? How they are used?"
The post https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/q/2757/40980 has the question body of:
Why more or less monitors is worse than your configuration?
Why is important use it in this way (position)...
user40980
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The number of votes required to close and reopen questions is temporarily reduced . . . for science!
This experiment is over. I will be adding an answer to show the results and suggest a plan for going forward.
For the next 30 days, closing a question will require just 3 votes. Also 3 votes will be ...
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Why was "Why aren't young programmers interested in mainframes?" re-opened?
Every day we get opinionated questions asked here. People seem to think that this is the place to ask them. New users point to the old open questions that have fallen through the cracks of time as ...
user40980
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Grant more close votes for close reviewers
Based upon a recent answer1, 2 to a previous question of mine, I'd like to re-visit an older request.
Please give all close voters3 on Programmers 50 votes instead of the standard 244.
Why?
All of ...
user53019
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Why do 'some examples' and 'list of things' questions get closed?
A common form of question that is often asked is the "what are some examples of..." While this is hinted at in the help center
Please make sure that your question is not too broad, or strongly ...
user40980
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add "finding a good book for ____" to off-topic section
Currently the on-topic page reads:
and it is not about...
general workplace issues, office politics, and job hunting (check
out The Workplace instead)
implementation issues, such as ...
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Analysis of the [development-environment] tag
Ummm.... this question was titled with work-environment. What happened?
@ThomasOwens merged work-environment into development-environment, which now needs a second pass from the community.
We've ...
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Why was this newly historically locked?
I've expounded on locked questions before and mentioned that these often age poorly. If something is to be locked, especially today, it should have some amount of moderation and curation done. These ...
user40980
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Burninate and blacklist request: [career-*] [job-*] [resume]
This is not a duplicate of this: Usefulness of [career-development] and [career-transition] tags ... it's time for them to be blacklisted. The narrowness of scope of what actually would be on topic ...
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When is a software licensing question on topic?
I would like to ask a question about software licensing. The help center says:
If you have a question about...
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software licensing
and it is not about...
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legal advice or aid
It seems like ...
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Improve question quality by informing askers of expectations in some career related tags
Over here at Programmers, a lot of askers seems to misunderstand site-specific expectations of career related questions, which frequently results in questions closure and deletions.
Propose to help ...
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