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What is the line between a "pro webmaster" question and a...well, not "pro webmaster" question?

For example, I own a domain name and I'm working on getting content. But I'm trying to choose between building and deploying custom software (I'm a software engineer by education), what off-the-shelf ...
Thomas Owens's user avatar
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Do we need a new close reason for legal questions?

I was tempted to ask the following question: When doing a parody of a registered trademark, how can you ensure its a parody? Wisdom got the better of me, I remembered that I have a lawyer in ...
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State of the questions 2012 (and what we can do to improve)

If you look at our new questions page, you might notice a few things. There are very few high rep users asking questions. There are quite a few questions that are either closed or migrated. In ...
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can I gain ownership of my migrated question?

can I gain somehow ownership of my question that was migrated from Web ApplicationW? here is the migrated question
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Edit a question doesn't reflect the same content

For this question, if you click on edit, the textarea will be fill up with a more recent edit (I think). The displayed question is: Hi All: Is there any open source project that can be used to ...
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Are usability questions on-topic for this site?

I've come across several questions about usability which I feel would be better asked on uxexchange.com. This raises the slightly tricky issue that uxexchange is an 'old style' SO member - i.e. it ...
Bobby Jack's user avatar
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All Questions Area Empty When No Featured Questions

When clicking on the questions tab it defaults to featured but if there are no featured questions it shows an empty space where the list should be. Should the default behavior be to show a ...
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What is a webmaster?

I asked a question (1095) and Jeff Atwood told me it was too much of a programming question. Fair dos. Perhaps I have misunderstood what a webmaster is. What actually is a webmaster? I thought it was ...
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Accepting answers during the private beta

We're asking a lot of good questions, I think - and some of them already have what I would consider to be fantastic answers. However, do we accept these answers, or wait for the public beta to give ...
Tim Post's user avatar
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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 ...
That Realtor Programmer Guy's user avatar
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Why on earth is this off topic for a webmaster forum

This question was put on hold, and is definitely on topic for a webmasters forum. "I'm a college student and have a practice job (internship) helping a small department on my campus maintain its ...
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SEO questions limit

It looks like anything is asked related to helping SEO. Have a look at this question: Is it SEO safe to put <span> inside <a> element? This question isn't about SEO, it's about semantic ...
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Recourse against a moved question

What do I do when a question is moved incorrectly? I asked a question about finding a replacement for the Office Web Components. I think it was moved just because I mentioned that the Office Web ...
Homer's user avatar
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Moderators get two close votes, bug?

Take a look at this question. It looks like the following scenario happened: User votes to close a question User gains moderator privileges User votes to close again, probably forgetting that they ...
Tim Post's user avatar
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Should there be an explanation of community wiki in the parent site faq?

Currently I can find no mention of what community wiki is or when a question should be marked as such. Should there be some explanation of that?
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My question has disappeared without a trace - what happened?

On August 28, I posted a question titled A continuous website URL rechecker for Linux?: I am unable to find any trace of this question on the site, not even in my own user's activity. How is this ...
reinierpost's user avatar