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What do you want our final domain name to be? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Write an Elevator Pitch / Tagline
Note:
We are closing this domain naming thread. It is asking the entirely wrong question. See this blog post for details: Domain Names: Wrong ...
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Why "Pro" in "Pro Webmasters"
We are not just a site for professional webmasters. Our about page states "Webmasters is a question and answer site for professional and enthusiast webmasters." So why does the logo say "Pro ...
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Pro Webmasters swag for top users
As a thank you for being awesome, if you have at least 950 reputation and are on page 1 or page 2 of …
https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users?tab=reputation&filter=all
… we'll ...
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Feeling the frustration
This is what I know.
All four moderators are extraordinary.
John Conde brings unbelievable dedication and commitment. He has the uncanny and remarkable skill to answer questions succinctly and ...
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Is the name "webmasters" the right name for this site?
I don't know anyone that still uses the term "webmaster". Is this site missing its mark because people don't take the name seriously?
It hasn't received quite the influx of visitors I would have ...
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How tolerant should we be of programming and sysadmin questions?
Webmastering tends to involve a healthy dose of both programming and system administration. Where should we draw the line between what belongs on here, and what gets migrated to Stack Overflow or ...
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Should we take an ethical stand on people asking for help with unethical sites
I refer to this question here:
Adsense Page impression is showing zero
Where the guy wants his adsense ads to display correctly, but his site is clearly just an ad farm, so much so that it loads ...
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Remember to vote up!
Recently, we had a discussion on this question, so I've decided to put up this post so all users can see it clearly when they visit meta site.
In past few months, there are a devastatingly few number ...
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Moderator Nominations
This site does not have any discussions about selecting Moderators.
I am in the process of creating positions for Moderators Pro Tem from each community. But I need your help. We need nominations ...
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What can be done to get webmasters more popular in 2012?
It seems wrong to me that whilst Webmasters is a huge topic and one that touches so many people who work on the web it isn't particularly busy.
Would love to work together to get some action points ...
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Should we allow shortened URLs in questions/answers
In a recent question a link to a site was included that had been shortened using tiny.cc.
The link was inoffensive, however you could not know that for certain without clicking through.
So I'm ...
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MOD Notice: Farewell BYBE and hello Simon Hayter
Over the past couple of weeks I have been recovering from a rhinoplasty surgery on my nose from a collapse in the nasal passage, long story short... I'm better! and pumped with motivation.
After ...
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A new proposal for the definition of "Webmaster" question
Referencing:
The mod_rewrite problem
https://meta.serverfault.com/questions/981/mod-rewrite-htaccess-etc-questions-migrate
What is the line between a "pro webmaster" question and a...well, ...
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2012 Community Moderator Election Results
Pro Webmasters' second moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the two new moderators are:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly - please thank them for ...
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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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Shouldn't the FAQ also suggest StackOverflow?
The FAQ states:
What kind of questions should I not ask here?
[...]
If your question is about …
Networking, servers, or maintaining other people's PCs and contains no source code, ask on Server ...
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Goodbye "Pro Webmasters". Hello, "Webmasters!"
TL;DR: Our site's name is changing soon from "Pro Webmasters" to just "Webmasters".
Recently we had a discussion here regarding rebranding our site with a different name. Although ...
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2013 Moderator Election Results
Pro Webmasters' fourth moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderator is:
He'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank him for volunteering, ...
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If all SysAdmin questions get punted to ServerFault, and all HTML/CSS are 'programming' - what is left for ProWebmasters?
Question says it all really? I can't really see what useful scope this site has if all of the system administration and web-design elements are stripped out.
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HTML/CSS questions - Doctype or here?
I have previously asked this question but it seems things as changed. The FAQ no longer mentions that HTML/CSS questions belong on Doctype. When did this change? And, what does the removal of that ...
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Is a question about web hosts appropriate?
Specifically asking for recommendations? I realize this is somewhat subjective, but I believe it could also be fairly objective. For instance, I recently discovered that my webhost (1and1) does not ...
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A tag for Google Domains
There are several questions concerning Google Domains product but no google-domains tag. One of them even contains a remark
FWIW I'd like to tag this "google-domains" and/or similar but I don't ...
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"How to open the JavaScript console...?" is a great resource but a poor Q&A example
The question How to open the JavaScript console in different browsers? is a great resource when I'm answering questions on Stack Overflow. I often need to tell new JavaScript programmers to look in ...
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Moderator Pro Tem Announcement
As we enter the second week of public beta, we desperately need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we ...
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Updates to the site
My name is Kurtis and I'm a designer with Stack Exchange. You may have noticed some updates to the design of your site. The updates are part of a SE network-wide update to a new base css framework. ...
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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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We need to decide what we're doing with web hosting questions
We've discussed this before (1, 2) and never really decided upon much. The reason why I want to bring this up again is two fold:
We're getting a lot of these requests and they really aren't very ...
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Moderator Back If you will have me :)
So where do I start exactly? I think I'll start with the an apology for vanishing as I did and thank those who reached out to see if I was okay. For the past year or more, real life have has been as ...
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Spam attack: Many questions plagarized from moz.com are being copied to the site by a spam network of new users
Yesterday, a whole slew of new questions began to appear from users with a reputation of 1 and as @w3dk pointed out, were registered 4 days ago (now 5). @dan made the first attempt to clean-up the ...
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Should Webmasters allow 3 votes to close a question rather than 5?
I feel like it is currently too hard for non-moderators to close and re-open questions on Webmasters. According to 2021: a year in moderation in the last year our moderators closed 989 questions while ...
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Can I reply to moderator's question edit?
I've seen that a moderator edited my question and I wanted to know if it is possible to leave a reply. I've seen I can edit the question again, but I think this could end up in the moderator editing ...
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Proposed Post Notice/Catch All: How do I ensure my website is operating within the law?
Updated 8 September 2012: We really would like your feedback on this: so please vote, edit, comment, and answer this proposal.
Building on discussion from Do we need a new close reason for legal ...
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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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Why was this question made community wiki?
Why is this question ... [ Which TLD would be suited to a personal site? ] ... community Wiki?
I don't understand the rationale. And I am often frustrated seeing questions turned into Community Wiki ...
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Can SEO students ask questions on Pro Webmasters?
I'm looking for a place to send my 240+ SEO students to learn and ask questions?
Will Pro Webmasters help them?
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Do we want to do the Winter Bash again this year?
Although it is usually up to the site moderators to decide if we want to participate, I figured the whole community should have some input.
From the Community Team:
As another year draws to a ...
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Should SEO be spun off to a new SE site?
I can't answer for other 'regulars', but I find that most of the SEO questions are from newbies and are a distraction from what I find interesting and want to learn about and help with.
This has been ...
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2013 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection [closed]
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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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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Pro Webmasters Moderator Cards
We recently printed some business cards for our Stack Exchange employees and they turned out great.
It got us thinking: our sites' moderators have been working hard to keep our sites high quality for ...
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How can we stay on top of old questions? / Guidelines for old questions
Last night (Around this time) I went through the Unanswered Questions from the bottom up. I got through till page 3 only choosing questions that the user who asked had shown recent activity or more ...
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Help Pinocchio Become A Real Boy!
Pro Webmasters needs your help in order to grow and become an official Stack Exchange web site in:
43 Days
Here are some things that you can do to help us reach that goal:
Answer some unanswered ...
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Misspelling cleanup -- every time you make a typo, the errorists win
Here's a cleanup project to help improve the information on the site. Occasionally words are intentionally misspelled, and that is OK. We are only interested in correcting mistakes.
Fix words that ...
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On topic question closed for being off topic?
This was a question I asked some time ago on this site that got closed. I still haven't found any satisfying information regarding it.
Company or website logo as the search result image / Google+ ...
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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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2012 Community Moderator Election
The 2012 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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We need a site slogan
We should have a site slogan, something on topic, humorous and catchy. This could be included in all promotional ventures, e-mail/forum signatures, etc.
There are a ton of sites using really, really ...
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2021 Community Moderator Election Results
Moderator election #5 on Webmasters 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 volunteering and ...
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Where can I ask web design questions of a more amateur nature?
I don't want to bother pro web designers with simple questions as I see most of the questions here are quite technical.
An example would be, 'I have a template I've downloaded. The folder contains a ...
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Please give us your feedback on the "What topics can I ask about here?" Help page
Our What topics can I ask about here? page in the Help Center lets new and existing users know what the community considers to be on-topic and off-topic for the site.
It's based on Meta discussions ...
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