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Understanding what's valuable to Stack Overflow
The golden rule here is, quite simply, that we don't want to destroy value. If the post adds any value whatsoever to the community, the site, or even the larger Internet, then it should not be deleted....
Cody GrayMod
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No Thanks, Damn It!
I'm glad we fixed this specific permutation of thanks, but what about the million other combinations of thanks in advance? Thanks in advances (286), thanks advance (980) and thanks in advice (1247) ...
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Apache AGE (of Despair)
Strange pattern indeed. As some of us have noted, there's a lot of repeat users answering these questions. At first, I thought that there could have been voting fraud. However, NotTheDr01ds pointed ...
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Can we speak out against all the pronunciations?
Pronunciation is highly opinion based and subjective matter. I am strictly against allowing such questions.
I don't have to go far to look for reasons...
I am Delphi developer and Delphi developers ...
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Can we speak out against all the pronunciations?
As someone who was unpersuaded of the wisdom of the original consensus, I'd suggest restraint here too.
I understand the rationale for being against these questions - they're often purely matters of ...
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Please stop having opinions about things
Please stop doing keyword searches and deleting stuff that's been on the site for 5-10 years. The time and effort spent on those 50-odd posts is better spent on helping users that are posting ...
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Shall we clean up strikethrough content from answers?
Again, my answer is: Depends. I'll explain why.
Learning from mistakes can be very helpful sometimes, especially when we don't always look at the answer's history.
For example, you might come across ...
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Close voters call to arms: let's make this September welcoming
You're missing another important class of questions, which need to be closed. Duplicates! Yes, many new questions are flagged as duplicates and they need to be reviewed as well (there were 58 posts ...
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Shall we clean up strikethrough content from answers?
If someone is totally rewriting their answer like in your provided screenshot, then yes, that should be deleted. That's what the revision history is for. If they are using it for emphatic, contextual ...
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Should we do something about "sqllite" misspelling?
I do not believe the alternatives are "mass edit or let the database decay", as you state in a comment.
I'm pretty sure you can find many other misspellings that are as prevalent or even more. We ...
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The [collision] tag is often misused despite the description indicating how to use it correctly. What should we do about it?
This tag is ambiguous and should get removed, not renamed. It can mean/is being used as any of the following:
Network collisions, as in packet collisions in networks designed with CSMA/CD or CSMA/CA....
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Where shall we let the community update Xcode download locations?
Several thoughts, in no particular order
The reason we have Offsite Resources closure in the first place is that links get stale really quickly. Download links are the bread of links: they go bad ...
MachavityMod
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No Thanks, Damn It!
Here's some more rather large ones to expound what @whn posted above.
Check out these thanksters
thanks (3.1 million..)
please (2.4 million..)
my question is (419,877)
sorry (339,266)
solved it (77,...
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Where shall we let the community update Xcode download locations?
Such questions should be deleted.
SO is not an authoritative source to answer questions like "Where do I download X". Google is one or perhaps someone's blog if official pages are too bad. ...
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Where shall we let the community update Xcode download locations?
Use both a tag wiki and a question that you can close others as duplicates of. Ideally, answer the question with a link to the wiki...
Wait, what? Heh... I'll explain.
Which tag wiki do you think gets ...
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And the [oscar] goes to Trogdor
All questions previously tagged oscar have been retagged.
As Chicken already pointed out, most of the questions tagged oscar can be closed. This is currently in progress and appears to pull through (4 ...
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Understanding what's valuable to Stack Overflow
I have a feeling that I'm being misunderstood or that my words are being twisted, so thank you for asking this question so I can chime in to explain myself better.
Yes, I have said:
The time and ...
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Close voters call to arms: let's make this September welcoming
If you already have steward gold badge in the close review queue, you do not care much about review queue stats and you are disappointed with the close review queue because in many cases SE just age ...
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Tag [dynamic] is very ambiguous and seldom describes the content
Burn it to the ground. You missed some cases though
dynamic sql -> dynamic-sql sql for dynamically generated SQL questions (there's quite a few). Normally we'd squash both tags when doing ...
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What should we do with [kubeadm] questions?
Having a look at the last 10 questions for kubeadm, none of them seem to be on-topic on Stack Overflow. And I think most of the 564 questions with this tag is off-topic. I suggest that this tag should ...
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The [hdd] tag is in the process of being cleaned
Having done a lot of the recent closures on hdd and ssd, a lot of the on-topic questions could be retagged to disk-access, as it suggests programming as opposed to the ambiguous ones we have now
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MachavityMod
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Burn / Synonym the [music-player] tag
There is a small issue in here. There seems to be a lot of questions tagged with android, and there exists a android-music-player tag already. I'm not that aware if Android's Music Player needs its ...
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Apache AGE (of Despair)
Here's a SEDE query that shows the apache-age questions sorted by number of answers if you'd like to tackle the potential low-hanging fruit first.
On the downside, it will (hopefully) quickly become ...
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Cleaning posts with omploader.org images
I've started cleaning posts with omploader.org images. As @BSMP pointed out, several questions containing links to omploader.org are only linking to images. There are many examples (1, 2, 3, 4). I ...
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Question cleanup needed
I don't see any good reason to "mess" with the answers on that question.
There is no plagiarism or other breach of the site's terms.
There is no harm in having a couple different flavors of the same (/...
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Should we do something about "sqllite" misspelling?
This probably isn't as big a problem as it looks. I don't think we need a huge edit hunt, but you should fix this when you see it (especially for brand new posts, since bumping them doesn't matter).
...
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Understanding what's valuable to Stack Overflow
It appears that there is a significant and increasing resistance to curating old content from some parts of the community, predicated mainly on the influx of new questions. The argument from this ...
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How to flag dozens of almost identical answers
If a person posts multiple (almost) identical answers and it seems like it is more of a mistake due to them not knowing better/that they should vote/flag the questions as duplicates, I would start by ...
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Let's clean up [postfix-mta]
There are 1,422 questions that are tagged as postfix-mta. So this can be handled in a similar way to the large tag burninations, where we cleanup before the tag is removed. (I know that you've ...
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Can we clean up the [macbook] and [macbookpro] tags?
Here's a snapshot of questions with either tag from SEDE that may still need to be deleted (or even potentially salvaged, but I'm not holding my breath).
Closed already (please delete them if needed):...
Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible