Questions tagged [suitable-question]
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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 ...
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Why so much tolerance for undifferentiated CMS recommendation questions?
There's a class of "What CMS should I use for $project?" question in which $project has no particular features of interest, ie. just about any minimally-capable CMS would be able to handle it.
For ...
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Is Black Hat SEO On topic
I'm wondering if this site has any specific policy regarding black hat seo questions. This question could pop up in the future, and I figured that it might be a good idea to have it writen down. Also, ...
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Welcome to Stack Exchange Pro Webmasters!
Welcome to Stack Exchange Pro Webmasters, a community-driven, free Q&A community for webmasters, part of the Stack Exchange network.
What should I ask here?
Questions regarding the management of ...
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ASP.NET MVC specific question - Should this be on StackOverflow?
Looking at this question:
How do you avoid XSS vulnerabilities in ASP.Net (MVC)?
I would have said that the question was better asked on StackOverflow rather than on Pro Webmasters - it's not very ...
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Magento admin and operations questions
I'm a mod over on Stack Overflow. We get a fair number of non-programming questions about deploying, upgrading, administering Magento and one or two other eCommerce/Cart apps.
Quite often these get ...
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If I want to ask for a recommendation of a good CDN provider, can I ask here?
Just wondering whether it is allowed.
I want to ask for recommendation of CDN services because I guess my current CDN is not fast enough.
Can I just post it here or it's not allowed?
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Would a question regarding the value of jQuery vs. Javascript be appropriate for Pro Webmasters?
Recently on Stack Overflow a question popped up regarding whether jQuery still had any real value over just using JavaScript and was shot down for being: not a real question, likely to elicit extended ...
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Is it necessary to historically lock a question about HTML Imports given that HTML Modules will be recommended in a year or three?
Thanks for historically locking:
On what specific grounds were HTML Imports rejected, deprecated and removed?
But, is it strictly necessary?
I can foresee a time in the not-too-distant future when ...
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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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Does community management belong on here?
Do you consider questions about community management of a website to be on-topic or off-topic?
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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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Are question about website architecture off-topic ?
I would like to know if this question should be consider as off-topic or on-topic.
Why should I develop my applications using the MVC design pattern?
2 opinion have been stated in the comment of the ...
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Pro Webmasters AKA the Dumping Ground - Flagging old Questions good or not?
I'm going though all unanswered questions and it just seems a hell lot of these questions are not even webmasters and in fact not suitable for any Stack Exchange Site. It would seem that people are ...
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My question about setting up WebDAV on IIS7 / Windows Server 2008: Should it be on-topic or not?
Related to this other meta question, but being a specific instance we can examine:
Here's my question on the actual site: What steps are necessary to configure WebDAV on IIS7 running on Windows ...
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Panda on pro-webmasters
Is it the appropriate site to ask a question about Panda and share insights about that the effects of that new algorithm on SEO ?
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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 ...
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Questions about technical setup at specific hosts?
Are these kinds of requests on-point?
I personally wouldn't be able to answer them, and my first instinct would be to refer them to the hoster's technical support, but maybe I'm not being ...
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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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Can I ask "How to Write a SEO Plan for Website / Blog?"?
Can I ask "How to Write a SEO Plan for Website / Blog?"?
I did not still ask this question because I thought it will be closed. That's why I asked it here. I know that answer for this question is ...
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Is webmasters an okay place to ask about how to sell a domain?
I have a domain registered in several TLDs (com, eu, net, de....) from a project that never came to fruition.
I'm dissolving my business at the moment. The domain in question is a fine, five-letter ...
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Would site design questions be a good fit for Pro Webmasters?
I'm struggling to find the right site to ask web site design related questions. Pro Webmasters tends to be more about technical questions, but the faq for Pro Webmasters indicates that questions that ...
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Should we encourage language-agnostic and subjectve questions?
This kinda of hit me after reading this question, mainly because it's true. As a webmaster I don't care what language you are hosting your website on, I only care if its relevant to mine. The more ...
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Would this question be on-topic on this site?
We have this question on Super User: Drupal image. Files storing to wrong place. Imagecache?
It's off-topic for Super User, for sure. However, I'm not sure where to refer the user to. He is obviously ...
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Are questions about joomla relevant?
Until the Joomla answers proposal is accepted (if ever; I've been waiting a while ...), which is the best place to ask Joomla-related questions? Here or Stackoverflow? Does it depend on whether or not ...
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Recommendations for specific commercial services?
Is it OK for people to be providing recommendations and personal experiences with specific services / service agencies?
Came up when I asked this question...
I could see something like this being ...
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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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"Which search engines support …" questions?
I wonder if it’s okay to ask questions in the form of "Which search engines support …?" on Webmasters SE?
Examples:
Which search engines parse RDFa, and which vocabularies do they support?
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"Visitor Conversion" types of questions.
During our definition phase, we deemed questions like this to be off topic for our site.
I'd like to ask the community which of the following courses of action would be most appropriate:
Allow these ...
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Would asking how to set up a fully-customizable MediaWiki-based website be appropriate for this Wiki?
I'd like to ask how to set up a fully-customizable MediaWiki-based website (not by Wikia, but one where I can install any extension I want) for free, but I'm afraid this would be like a website ...
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Can I ask questions about MediaWiki here?
Here's a link from a question about this on the Meta site for Stack Exchange.
Basically I want some help with the syntax of MediaWiki, like how can I create templates like this.
Specifics: as ...
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Would a question about how to host files with certain requirements be on-topic here?
I'm not familiar with the community norms here, so I wanted to check on meta first. My technological ignorance will certainly be clear in the following draft of my question:
I have a folder on my ...
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Software/server recommendations [duplicate]
I currently have a request put on hold asking for gallery software recommendations.
The gentleman that put it on hold suggested that I put in the Software Rec branch.
I have had a similar request ...
