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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Our "what topics can I ask about here" help page has been updated
Based on this Meta discussion, our what topics can I ask about here page in the Help Center has been updated. The following details the changes that were made from the previous version with the goal ...
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New Catch-All: Why aren't search engines indexing my content?
Update 2/7/2013: Question and answer now available for updates/edits at "Why aren't search engines indexing my content?"
The topic of why particular sites/sites' pages are not being indexed ...
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Dealing with Stack Overflow's 'seo' tag
The SEO tag on Stack Overflow is in quite a poor state - many of the questions are off-topic for SO, with less than half closed and migrated here.
So I'm wondering if there is something we can do to ...
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Can I request for an answer to be accepted if it's correct, but seems to have been forgotten by the asker?
Are you allowed to use the comments section of a question to request for an asker to mark an answer as accepted if they've left it for a long time, seemingly forgotten?
i.e. I recently answered a ...
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Getting users to vote
In light of reading the latest Stack Overflow Blog Post it dawned on me that as a mod, I haven't been doing nearly enough voting. In fact, today is the first day I've ever used up all my 30 votes.
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Please move questions for software recommendations to Software Recommendations.SE
There are many questions where the OP is seeking for a software recommendation. I notice that these are often flagged as off-topic (almost always by John Conde ♦). However, I think it'd be ...
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Are you going on marking community wiki each SEO question?
Could someone explain why almost any question talking baout SEO gets marked as "community wiki".
Like these:
What are the best ways to increase a site's position in Google?
Do meta keywords have ...
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Community Promotion Ads - 2015 [duplicate]
The dawn of a new year, 2015, now approaches, or has already approached, either way it means that it is now time to reset our Community Promotion Ads!
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community ...
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Single use tags and synonyms
We had a great grand opening, now we need to work on cleaning up all of the confetti on the floor. If you have a few minutes, please take a look at where single use tags begin and work your way to the ...
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Design for Webmasters site
Hi all. I'm Jin and I'll be working on the designs for the Stack Exchange sites as they graduate from the beta phase. Each site will have its own unique theme that will reflects its topic. However, ...
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Is there a policy on URLs in posts?
I am enjoying reviewing and editing posts and often remove the URL of a site and make it generic. However I just saw an answer posted by one of the moderators and he included the URL that was in the ...
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OK, I love WordPress as much as the next guy, but is Pro Webmasters really the right place for WordPress questions?
The WordPress proposal on Area 51 is still in commitment phase, and there isn't really an existing site that addresses WordPress (or any other CMS when it comes to using it - development questions ...
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Let's shape this site with Vote to Close!
We are getting a lot of questions that are clearly off-topic according to the FAQ, but they are still getting answers. I think that if we want to make this site work as a topical resource, we need to ...
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Web apps questions
This site is being flooded with off-topic questions about building web apps. Unfortunately, these off-topic questions are being upvoted a lot. These are clearly not questions about webmastering, they ...
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Fall 2013 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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List of possible tags that are synonyms
This is to list tags that may possibly be synonyms:
asp.net = aspx
blog = blogs
browser = browsers
customer-service = customer-support
dns-server = dns-servers
domain-name = domain-names
font = ...
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What to do with "advertisement" answers?
I've noticed that some answers on PW appear to be self-promoting or plain advertising. Don't like to single out users but here and here are two examples I just spotted.
They appear to surface most in ...
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Community Promotion Ads - 2014 [duplicate]
It's the time of the year again, namely it is December 2013, and so we shall now refresh our Community Promotion Ads for the new year.
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion Ads are ...
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What should we do about low quality, nonspecific "questions"?
Issue: More than half of the "question" titles listed on the homepage are non-specific descriptions rather than actual questions - can be verified with the following jQuery snippet:
Long form for use ...
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Annoyed my question was migrated from SO
I’m not sure why my question needed to be migrated from Stack Overflow. Lots of web-related topics are still considered programming. The question had 5K+ views and no one commented that it seemed the ...
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The Great Rebranding of ProWebmasters Stack Exchange
This post is an official follow-up to Mike Ciffone's meta post here:
Does ProWebmasters Need to rebrand?
Some community members here have expressed a desire to rename our ProWebmasters Q&A forum ...
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2013 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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Final Design / Look Of The Site
We should probably be having a conversation regarding the final look of the site. This (probably) hinges a bit on the domain that we select, however a common theme amongst the current favorites is ...
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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?
Community Promotion Ads ...
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New Catch All: What Forum Software should I use?
This question is now live: What forum software should I use?
As per this answer, here is a new catch all for people looking for a forum script:
Question:
I have a list of features that I want for ...
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Are social media marketing questions on-topic?
When I tried to tag this question What is the difference between two URL in Facebook Ad Manager?, I found that there is no tag about facebook-ads-manager or similar tags. This raised a suspicion that ...
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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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Cleanup: unanswered questions from 2011
There are only 40 6 questions left from 2011 that have no upvoted answers. To view these questions navigate to Unanswered -> Newest, then navigate to the last page. Since there are so few left, here ...
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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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If we're linking out, we ought to prioritize our own answers over of external resources
As a Q&A site, we naturally link to a lot of external URLs. Part of what makes q&a sites awesome is that we typically link to the right pages.
Before linking out, I encourage everyone to look ...
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Schema.org vs Microdata
There are currently separate tags for microdata and schema.org. These are technically different, as Schema.org is a collection of schemas making use of Microdata for marking up semantic data, but most ...
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Catch-All Community Wiki: Ecommerce Scripts
This is the catch-all discussion for Which Ecommerce Script Should I Use?
Question:
*This is a general, community wiki [catch-all][2] question to address non-specific "I need a eCommerce script that ...
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Dealing with tag overlap for 'ranking'
Consider that we have the following topics:
Page Rank (Google's trademarked rank indicator)
Alexa Ranking
Over-all ranking (in general, not specific to any service or SE)
This would mean three very ...
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Should we provide a version of the how to choose hosting question for ecommerce sites [duplicate]
We get a good number of questions along the lines of 'How do I choose an ecommerce engine' perhaps we should consider creating a generic answer that addresses this particular problem:-
The CMS/...
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What "off topic" close reasons should this site have?
Lets suggest the reasons that we should have (or remove). Submit one per answer and lets vote. Then the moderators can make a decision based on the top items.
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Web development question migrated to StackOverflow
So I had asked this question, not a particularly great question but certainly about web design/development.
Now that it has been migritad to SO, I am left wondering why? What is it that I'm not ...
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Closing/reopening questions
I've been a user of Stack Exchange for a while now. I usually see questions closed by vote, which gives the question-asker the ability to give reasons not to close the question (things the close-...
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Are questions about script recommendations on topic ?
There is currently a tag under the name looking-for-a-script
This tag has 53 questions. What is this tag about ? It sounds like
"Find me a script that does X"
Is that the intended purpose of ...
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Remove separator (border) of 'tabs'
Can the border be removed from the unanswered tab? It should only be displayed as a separator between the tabs IMHO.
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July 2012 Moderator Election - Town Hall Chat Digest
The following is a "digest" version of the July 2012 Moderator Election Town Hall Chat. The format, as described on Meta Stack Overflow, is one answer to this question for every question asked in the ...
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July 2012 Moderator Town Hall Chat
In connection with the moderator elections, we will be holding a Town Hall Chat session with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the ...
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We seem to be getting an unusual number of low quality posts
It seems that today we are getting an unusually high number of low quality posts, link only answers, etc.
It could be the moon is in the 7th house and jupiter aligns with mars. Or it could be one of ...
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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?
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Should "ads" and "advertising" tags be merged?
advertising × 184 - the practice of producing text, images, or other media intended to influence others' purchasing decisions.
ads × 60 - Short for advertisements. Visual elements added by a webmaster ...
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Are Host Recommendation Questions - On Topic?
I've seen the post Host Recommendation Questions - On Topic?, which seems to indicate that hosting recommendations are on topic, but I can't tell if that is the case.
The highest voted answer says ...
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Can someone review my disappearing comments?
In short: I found one of Pro Webmasters' moderators too eager to remove comments and I feel, that he has misused his moderator rights. Can someone spare 3-5 minutes to review this case?
Im my ...
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Lobbying For Reopening
Per this question, this is a lobby to reopen the question Should Site Title be Before or After Page Title? on webmasters.se.
I do not see the question as a duplicate of the other, because the ...
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Question deleted because moderator thinks it looks like a spam and it is unacceptable
I just asked question about pricing of DMCLOUD.net a cloud host provider; and it got deleted by a moderator within a second for the reason that it is a spam and it is unnacceptable:
This looks ...
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Closed Question
https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/38504/how-to-get-local-business-nationwide-exposure
I would like to know why such question was closed. I believe it is a very useful topic for future ...
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The error and error-code tag should be merged
The error and error-code tags should be merged.
The canonical tag should be error because error-code only has 2 questions, and error is shorter.
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