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(4 years later) Dear Stack Exchange: can we change our site name?
I've noticed a lot of discussion on this issue, and as a new user I feel I can shed some light as I have previously had difficulty when trying to decide whether a question I have, does in fact fit the ...
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(4 years later) Dear Stack Exchange: can we change our site name?
Oct. 20th, 2016 - This is done!
See: It's official! Programmers is now Software Engineering Stack Exchange
It took us a good while, but the Community Team has circled up and here's where we stand ...
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(4 years later) Dear Stack Exchange: can we change our site name?
It is a valid request, but I see some problems here:
to find a name which really describes the sites scope better, and not just different or equally bad (or worse).
once the name is changed, there ...
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(4 years later) Dear Stack Exchange: can we change our site name?
It would be a good idea but if I remember correctly the primary reason against this happening is that this would significantly hurt SEO.
Search Engine Optimization
This however can be a PITA, but it ...
maple_shaftMod
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(4 years later) Dear Stack Exchange: can we change our site name?
In the How To Ask it says, "Is your question about software development?" That seems like a pretty good name.
The Tour, has a list of questions not to ask. New posters are not reading this list. Many ...
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CR isn't in beta - migration path to them now?
I would like to present this chart from Checklist for how to write a good Code Review question first:
As you can see, the metaphorical distance in scope between Programmers and Code Review is ...
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Can I block people from interacting with my posts?
I took a look at your answer and I feel it makes a reasonable effort to answer the question and posits a plausible explanation for the question that was asked. I do think the assertion that this is ...
maple_shaftMod
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Can we get a tag-warning for [licensing] and [open-source] tags?
I'd also include tags like tools, developer-tools, career-development, education, software, and skills in this. I found these by going through a few pages of closed and deleted posts, since posts that ...
Thomas OwensMod
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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?
Some of you may have noticed the Meta Stack Exchange post - Testing three-vote close and reopen on 13 network sites (it's linked in the featured on meta sidebar) - we've finally got this project under ...
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Questions linked by meta questions shouldn't be permanently deleted
You point to a valid problem, but the solution cannot be to interfere with normal moderation or cleanup activities like deleting a question.
The actual problem here is that the Meta question relied ...
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(4 years later) Dear Stack Exchange: can we change our site name?
SoftwareEngineering.SE : hmm, probably we'd end up with more implementation questions, and get confused with some official Engineering qualification or certification stuff, and chances are we'd still ...
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How make a question about feedback for an university exercises?
Even if you can make the question on-topic and follow our guidance for asking a good question (also consider our guidance for design review questions), I'm not entirely sure that you should. It's ...
Thomas OwensMod
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A possible tag for on-hold questions?
Using a tag for this purpose isn't appropriate. It a meta tag: a tag which describes something other than the content of the question (examples being a skill level or motivation) or an ill-defined ...
Thomas OwensMod
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Improve question quality by informing askers of expectations in some career related tags
Update - these questions are now considered wholly off-topic here, so I've simplified the guidance further:
Wait! Job / Career questions are off-topic here. Yes, there are still a few around; it's a ...
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CR isn't in beta - migration path to them now?
I'm somewhat familiar with CR, with close to 1k rep there now.
I think there are a very small minority of questions here asking for code review which would be suited for CR.
Most of them are not ...
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Should we request a question wizard for questions on Software Engineering?
I do not think we really need the “Ask Question Wizard”. While over on Stack Overflow the majority of questions will have the form “why doesn't this code work like I think it should?” or “how to do X ...
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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?
As I wrote in the comments above, I first was very sceptical about this change when Robert asked for it. In the meantime, however, my opinion changed a bit and I think the positive effects of the ...
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Enable automatic syntax highlighting for [haskell]
This has been done. I applied the lang-hs code language for the default syntax highlighting for the tag.
Thomas OwensMod
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Can we get a tag-warning for [licensing] and [open-source] tags?
This request is now complete.
According to the list provided to me, I added tag warnings for the following tags:
License related tags:
licensing/license/licenses,
xxx-license/licenses(mit-license, ...
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The share button on posts should be updated to reflect the existence of the shorter domain names
While we're at it can we do the same for meta share links? Likely first need to get its certificate worked out so that
https://meta.swe.stackexchange.com/a/9397#comment28925_9397
will work as well as
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This question about why many programming languages do not support named arguments is not opinon based and should be reopened
I agree with the closure, but perhaps the reason isn't the best.
There are two pieces to the question:
Why do many languages not support named parameters?
Is there a disadvantage of this that I'm ...
Thomas OwensMod
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Proposal for Documentation on Programmers
This was asked and answered by Community Manager at MSE:
the product isn't quite ready to go elsewhere... Once it is known to work, then we can discuss the possibility of adding it to other sites ...
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Enable automatic syntax highlighting for Swift
I did this thing. Not sure if it's retroactive, but it should be set going forward.
Thomas OwensMod
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Should there be a redirect from se.stackexchange.com?
As per the consensus reached on this other discussion, the following redirects are now in place:
http://swe.stackexchange.com/ and https://swe.stackexchange.com/ now redirect to https://...
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This question about why many programming languages do not support named arguments is not opinon based and should be reopened
Even if we get some consensus here that the question in stake is not opinionated enough to deserve closage, I am sure after reopening it, it would immediately be closed as "needs more focus"....
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First off-topic close reason text should be updated for new Stack Overflow phrasing
Robert Harvey made the close reason and I've approved it, putting it in place of the other close reason. This should be resolved - thanks for the heads up.
Thomas OwensMod
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Would "suggest improvements" be better than "add a comment" here
Right now, the change from "add a comment" to "suggest improvement" is an experiment on Interpersonal Skills. If the experiment goes well there, it may be expanded to other sites and perhaps the whole ...
Thomas OwensMod
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Mentors for New Users
It has been a common exercise (for good reasons of course), to close, delete or hold questions that tend to show irrelevance to the purpose of one of SE sites.
Quickly closing poor questions, ...
Thomas OwensMod
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Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible