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New Site Name and Help Center: Phase I Complete
In "follow up 2" discussion the plan seemed to be that we are going to have words
not code troubleshooting
in the site tagline, looking about like that:
Is this still the plan?
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Accepted
Bug: incorrect links in 'What topics can I ask about here?'
Since we were renamed from Programmers to Software Engineering, there was a mapping from the old domain name to the new one. But it looks like when the HTTPS rollout happened and they had to put the ...
Thomas OwensMod
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Where can I see what kind of questions are or are not relevant on /programmers?
The Help Center has all the information that you need. Specifically, check out these pages:
What topics can I ask about here?
What types of questions should I avoid asking?
How do I ask a good ...
Thomas OwensMod
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Help Center tuning: "help/on-topic/and it is not about..." += references to meta guidance
Programmers Stack Exchange is a Q&A site for professionals and students in software development and related fields who are interested in getting expert answers on conceptual questions about ...
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add "finding a good book for ____" to off-topic section
The line now reads:
where to find a software library, tool, book, research paper, blog, forum, or other resources
The link goes to the same meta post as before.
Thomas OwensMod
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Add a 'ideal' or 'mission statement' to the help/on-topic
IMHO this won't change anything. People who come to "Programmers" for asking debugging questions are too ignorant to care for the site rules - they either don't read them at all, they do not ...
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add "finding a good book for ____" to off-topic section
Objective evidence provided in the initial discussion does show that "book recommendation" Q&A's as they are now are generally sub-par and unhelpful in the long or even the short run.
They tend ...
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Can questions go into limbo when its migrated (rejected) and on hold?
I would change the question to this format:
What alternatives there are for simple human readable configuration file in python?
What are the pros and cons for each solution? Here is an example ...
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