Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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Middle Sidebar Advertising
As you all know, advertising is an important source of revenue for Stack Overflow and it helps us support all the sites across the Stack Exchange Network and the resources that go into maintaining and ...
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2022: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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Expression Engine has hit the ten year mark!
We recently announced that our Stack Exchange community was turning a decade old. We’re so excited to celebrate this milestone together. This is a shared effort by our dedicated community of ...
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2021: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
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2021 Community Moderator Election Results
Moderator election #3 on ExpressionEngine® Answers has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderator is:
They will be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for ...
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2021 Community Moderator Election
The 2021 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...
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2021 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection
The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here.
ExpressionEngine® Answers is scheduled for an election next week, ...
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Announcing an election for July 2021
Summary: Expression Engine Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for an election on June 19 to bring in one more moderator.
The timeline:
Starting on July 12, the Community Team will post a ...
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2020: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months.
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Community Promotion Ads — 2020
2020 has come! But… oops, where did the time go? It’s already March! Belated as it is, it’s time for a refresh of Community Promotion Ads!
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion Ads ...
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2019: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, ...
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Community Promotion Ads — 2019 [duplicate]
2019 is here! And with the new year, as usual, comes a new iteration of Community Promotion Ads! Let’s refresh these for the coming year :)
What are Community Promotion Ads?
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2018: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in ...
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ExpressionEngine updated site theme is ready for testing!
As part of implementing the new unified themes across the network, we're gradually rolling out updated site themes for each site. As of today, we have enabled your updated site theme for testing.
If ...
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Community Promotion Ads - 2018 [duplicate]
It's almost February in 2018, which isn't supposed to be the proper time to cycle these, but for this year it'll be once again, so we'll be refreshing the Community Promotion Ads for this year now!
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suggestion for tag removal
Im not sure where to ask this, or whom to address it to, so I hope this question is within site protocol.
I would like to suggest the removal of tag: carthrob.
The tag Cartthrob exists for tagging ...
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Community Promotion Ads - 2017
It is a bit late into this new year, being that we're already in the second month, but we are now cycling the Community Promotion Ads for 2017!
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion ...
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Expression Engine Documentation on Stackoverflow Documentation project
I notice when I visited SO just now I was invited to be the first to commit to the Stackoverflow Documentation project for EE.
https://stackoverflow.com/documentation/expressionengine/commit
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Is ExpressionEngine SE still alive?
I feel that ExpressionEngine SE is dying. Here's a screenshot of the homepage:
As you can see, almost everything is just bumped by community. Even the meta here is dead.
If fact, at this point of ...
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ExpressionEngine® Answers — Top User Swag!
This has been shipped today! Enjoy your swag, everyone :)
If you still don't have yours and think you should have it by now, please send me an e-mail so I can look into it instead of leaving a comment ...
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What are the thoughts and/or rules on posting a solution to an issue with a site?
If you have an issue with a particular function or can't find a solution and eventually come up with a solution and think it may be helpful to other users, is it okay to post the problem and reply the ...
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Community Promotion Ads - 2016
It's 2016 now, and we've made some changes to the sidebar size. As such, we can now restart the Community Promotion Ads for 2016!
Keep in mind, we have updated some of the guidelines compared to ...
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Edits for edits sake?
How much of an edit should be allowed when it seems the proposed editor is ripping the personality out of a post, or adding correct punctuation and grammar?
These edit for example:
https://...
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Tags: config vs configuration
I notice that there is a tag "config" as well as a tag "configuration". Neither has a wiki summary.
If these tags are meant to be distinct perhaps someone can add a wiki summary that explains the ...
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Why can't a new user accept an answer on their question for 2 days?
Just a quick note, I regularly encourage Answer acceptance and up-voting in comments on good answers and questions (however I still eeem a long way off Vox Populi [sad-face] ), however it has just ...
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Are we going to sail past 2000 unanswered questions?
Sorry if I've abused the Meta board somewhat. I was just browsing unanswered today and noted that we're up to 1,934 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers, with 1,417 questions with no answers. ...
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Synonym with categories with channel-categories with category
The three versions of "Categories" need to be linked with each other.
If possible all questions tagged with "category" or "channel-categories" should either have "categories" added as a tag or have ...
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2015 Community Moderator Election Results
ExpressionEngine Answers's 1st moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the 3 new moderators are:
Please thank them for volunteering, and share your assistance ...
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2015 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...
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2015 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
In connection with the moderator elections, we will be holding a Q&A with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic ...
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2015 Community Moderator Election
The 2015 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks,...
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Community Promotion Ads - 2015
Congratulations on receiving a new design! Included with your new design is the Community Promotion Ads system. We're barely weeks into a brand new year, so little time lost in this yearly cycle ...
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Site graduated! New design launched
As you can see the new design just went live. Which means this site has been officially launched! Congratulations! Thank you for your valuable design feedback.
If you're still seeing the old favicons,...
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Design for ExpressionEngine StackExchange
Edit: The logo has been updated according to this comment.
Graduation and Your Site Design
Graduation comes with a few perks. I have already begun work on your site's design, which will give you ...
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How do you bookmark a thread on EE Answers? (watch or follow)
As per the title of this question. Simply saving an interesting thread for later - how does that work on this Q&A site?
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Let's get critical: Sep 2014 Site Self-Evaluation
We all love ExpressionEngine® Answers, but there is a whole world of people out there who need answers to their questions and don't even know that this site exists. When they arrive from Google, what ...
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Synonym Safecracker with Channel Form
We currently have 2 tags, "safecracker" and "channel-form" which I think should be made a synonym as people who've only recently come across ExpressionEngine will probably know the feature as Channel ...
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Following A Question Via Email
This might be completely off-topic I know, but is there a way to follow specific questions on here via email?
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How to handle questions posted on S.O. and then on EE S.E
Whenever I see a strictly-EE-question posted on StackOverflow I suggest that the asker repost it here in our EE beta SE.
For example today this question sat ignored for two hours in SO but was ...
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Advice needed on how to deal with poorly written questions asked by non native English speakers
Lately there seems to be an influx of really poorly phrased questions that appear to be written by people for whom English is a second (or third, or fourth) language.
Obviously we don't want to ...
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An Idea for Debug Output
I have written a simple ExpressionEngine add-on that I think may help us better help people asking for help here.
Something I've noticed when trying to answer questions is that people often don't ...
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Let's get critical: Mar 2014 Site Self-Evaluation
We all love ExpressionEngine® Answers, but there is a whole world of people out there who need answers to their questions and don't even know that this site exists. When they arrive from Google, what ...
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Etiquette on answering questions by offering custom dev services
Wondering what people think of answers like these recent ones from new-ish user Chris:
https://expressionengine.stackexchange.com/a/18377/55
https://expressionengine.stackexchange.com/a/18378/55
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Let's get critical: Dec 2013 Site Self-Evaluation
We all love ExpressionEngine® Answers, but there is a whole world of people out there who need answers to their questions and don't even know that this site exists. When they arrive from Google, what ...
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What should I do with a question that becomes a troubleshooting thread and doesn't resolve neatly?
For some reason this keeps happening on the EE Stack Exchange, but rarely (if ever) on Stack Overflow: I get stuck on something and pose a question that will hopefully solicit perspectives that lead ...
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New reason to close a question? "Refers to previous product version for which there is now a fix."
I'm not trying to gain cheap reputation points, but I've been walking through some of the unanswered questions and noticed a trend: a lot of them are irrelevant now. They are irrelevant because they ...
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How do we increase the number of questions answered?
[This is similar in nature to Adrian's question/bulletin How can we encourage more voting? Only more focused on voting on answers.]
I've been on a personal quest to get this site's percentage of ...
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Is this site supposed to be a helpful resource for questions and answers?
Is this site supposed to be a helpful resource for ExpressionEngine questions and answers?
The reason I ask is that I have a fair amount of experience at Stack Overflow and WordPress Answers (and ...
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Let's get critical: Sep 2013 Site Self-Evaluation
We all love ExpressionEngine® Answers, but there is a whole world of people out there who need answers to their questions and don't even know that this site exists. When they arrive from Google, what ...
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How can we encourage more voting?
So, over the past 6 months, our daily questions have remained fairly stable, and our overall traffic is up, but the number of votes cast has been slowly declining. This graph illustrates the problem:
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