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The question you're asking is designed to solicit answers or opinions on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.

17 votes
2 answers
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How to prevent "Why is my question being closed?" and User Frustration?

There are a lot of frustrations all on the front page (Nov 2010, still occuring Jun 2011): Why is this question closed? It's a good question about a bad idea. I don't think peaple understand Program …
12 votes

What should our logo and site design look like?

Supposing the current best suggested name might have a good chance to become our domain: And an example of a tiny version which still needs some improvement through some pixel pushing: About the …
Tamara Wijsman's user avatar
8 votes
5 answers
171 views

What is the best? VS What is your favorite? VS What X to use?

What is the best X? versus What is your favorite X? versus What X to use? I'm wondering if such questions result in the same answer, often the best is your favorite and vice-versa. My guess is that …
Tamara Wijsman's user avatar
8 votes
2 answers
207 views

Software Engineering soon to be beta, what should we do with SE questions? [closed]

There are some questions on our site regarding Software Engineering. (Example 1, Example 2) What should we do with those questions when Area 51 - Software Engineering will be pubilc beta? Should we. …
Tamara Wijsman's user avatar
7 votes
1 answer
486 views

Should a tag be singular or plural?

Examples: [career] or [careers] [design-pattern] or [design-patterns] [best-practice] or [best-practices]
Tamara Wijsman's user avatar
6 votes

Should the point distribution system be changed to encourage discussion, not answering?

Increasing the up-vote reputation isn't going to encourage much better answers, to the voter it will still be a +1 or -1. He's not going to think in terms of "it has 30, I give him 15 or take 2 away". …
Tamara Wijsman's user avatar
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How Does The "Publicist" Badge Work?

Share it in a social manner, eg. Facebook, Twitter, Friends, Blog, Digg, IM, ... By doing that you are publishing the question to a public outside the StackExchange community. As for how, just copy …
Tamara Wijsman's user avatar
4 votes
1 answer
65 views

[language(s)] --> [programming-languages] or [spoken-languages] [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Request for comment: structured tag cleanups [language] [languages] [programming-languages] [spoken-languages]
Tamara Wijsman's user avatar
4 votes
1 answer
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Is this question about users and their computer on-topic?

How to deals with users that think their computer could think? does not answer to "expert programmers who are interested in subjective discussions on software development" Yet people are answering... …
Tamara Wijsman's user avatar
3 votes

What to do with Community Wiki?

Remove CW conversions at 30 answers See the original question which has sufficient votes but should be in this concensus. From the original author: Since most questions here can have an unlimit …
Tamara Wijsman's user avatar
3 votes
1 answer
66 views

Should we (or Jeff) create a Facebook page?

Once the domain name is decided, should we create a Facebook page to help the site grow?
Tamara Wijsman's user avatar
3 votes

Lots of subjective questions here

For this site, I tend to think that Community Wiki should only be encouraged for collaborative editing... If all questions that should be CW on a normal site be CW here then reputation would be nearl …
Tamara Wijsman's user avatar
3 votes
3 answers
62 views

Should we get rid of the [experience] tag?

With the recent changes, perhaps we should discuss and vote about this question? Feel free to improve vote answers (those that start with a bold sentence) or add new ones.
Tamara Wijsman's user avatar
3 votes
1 answer
94 views

Are all the current badges sufficient for our community?

Are all the current badges sufficient for the community or are there badges that don't fit the community? Related: Is the Tumbleweed badge working?
Tamara Wijsman's user avatar
2 votes

Are we now voting to close based on content in other websites?

Should we be close duplicates of questions that came from other SE sites? No, we shouldn't. Let me quote Thomas Owens from Math.SE - Vote to Close as Exact Duplicate: From my perspective, the …
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