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Should SEO be spun off to a new SE site?
I think SEO is important to our site and webmastering in general, and brings us a lot of traffic (ironically or not). Splitting it off would do little to build a community anew and would leave us with ...
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Should Webmasters allow 3 votes to close a question rather than 5?
I think the numbers speak for themselves. Currently, if a moderator doesn't close a question it's likely not going to be closed.
I agree that we should lower the vote to close threshold to three votes....
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Should I refrain from welcoming each new user with a comment?
Please stop leaving "welcome to the site" comments.
The best way to be welcoming to new users is to assist them:
Answer their questions
Vote up good posts
Edit for grammar and clarity
Ask for ...
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Did anyone tried to get Illuminator badge?
Which means that to get this done, you need to post 1 answer in 1.44 minutes or else you'll fail in getting it.
No, you have 12 hours to edit and answer a single question. You can take as many ...
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A tag for Google Domains
I've created the google-domains tag and updated the question you specifically linked to. If you know of others feel free to edit them accordingly.
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The [webmaster] tag applies to every question ever asked?
As indicated in your comment, out of the 32 questions tagged with the webmaster tag, it appears that several mistakenly used this in replace of the google-webmaster-tools tag, which is now a synonym ...
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Can SEO students ask questions on Pro Webmasters?
Yes. SEO is an on-topic subject here and is, in fact, the most popular topic here.
But keep in mind that all questions, even from students, must follow the site's rules. As SEO questions are ...
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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
Right now these users are mostly on page 6 of the new users ordered by creation date:
https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/users?page=6&tab=newusers&sort=creationdate
I'm working on cleaning ...
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Is it ok to remove spam links from an off-topic question even after flagging the question as Spam?
Please remove spammy links if the question or answer can stay up without them.
If you are going to flag them as spam to be deleted, then please leave the spammy link in it. It makes it easier for ...
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Is DHIS2 on topic?
Under the section on What topics can I ask about here? in the Web Applications Help Center, it states:
For managing and maintaining your own hosted web application please ask on Pro Webmasters
DHIS ...
danMod
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If I want to ask for a recommendation of a good CDN provider, can I ask here?
You cannot ask for recommendations on this site, or most Stack Exchange sites.
We find that questions that ask for recommendations attract spam answers.
With recommendation questions, the ...
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Should we encourage answers to be accepted?
This is perfectly fine. Accepting an answer tells the community that the problem was solved and which answer was preferred by the question-asker. It also rewards the answer-er with deserved reputation....
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Question not in English
If a question is not in English it should be closed as "unclear what you're asking". With a few obvious exceptions, Stack Exchange sites are expected to be in English.
At that point the content ...
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Moderator Back If you will have me :)
As far as I'm concerned, welcome back!
Glad to hear that you're in good health and doing well. You missed quite a bit of drama and changes on the Stack Exchange network over the past year. Thankfully ...
danMod
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Should Pro Webmasters unpin the accepted answer from the top of the list of answers?
I think we should unpin accepted answers. An accepted answer just means the answer was useful to the question-asker. It doesn't mean it is the best answer or the answer which will more widely apply to ...
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Are questions about email hosting on-topic?
I think any questions related to email can be divided into six camps:
Software client questions (i.e. What isn't my email software like Outlook working?) belong on Super User.
Server software ...
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Is this question subjective and opinion?
Yes, it's very subjective mate, and it'll be too broad if you post it here.
You are wondering which feature to launch and how to evaluate that feature. Every feature is ok, but it all depends on ...
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Should we get rid of [wordpress]?
First, that question was closed because it is asking a very site specific question. It was worded as "What is wrong with my site? Here is a stack trace." Questions both here and at the ...
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2021 Community Moderator Election Results
Congratulations, Maximillian Laumeister! Welcome to the team!
John CondeMod
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Should we merge [social-networks] and [social-media]?
I agree. I think we should merge them and use social-media as the canonical tag. They are essentially the same thing, especially with the context of how they are used on this site.
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I've clarified my question, can you please consider re-opening it?
Sometimes there's multiple reasons why a question would be considered off-topic and hence placed on-hold. Initially, the question was pretty unclear as you stated above. There are still other reasons ...
danMod
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IMO Incorrect "on hold", maybe add a tag to indicate not code, but concept thinking is requested
Brainstorming and concept thinking unfortunately doesn't fit very well with the format of most Stack Exchange sites, which are focused on single issue/solution based questions & answers that can ...
danMod
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Tag rename request: file-manger
Finally, a no-brainer :-) Good catch! It's renamed now.
Here's a discussion about how to rename a tag on Stack Exchange's Meta site. It requires a moderator to do, so you did the right thing by ...
danMod
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Feeling the frustration
I'm relatively new to site. I've decided to use it because it helped me a lot. So... I'll let it all out. I think that main concern that we need to focus on is motivation.
Users here like to get ...
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Flag Declined but Post Closed
It appears that a moderator declined the flag. At the point that the flag was handled, the post had already been put on hold. As a moderator, I try to use "declined" sparingly. I would not ...
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Disputed "Not an Answer" flag
That answer is from an official representative from a product mentioned in the question. The answer is more than just a link. It says the product supports the desired feature in some ...
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Is it a problem when users have a spammy username?
Yes, it's okay. The name in-and-of isn't offensive and doesn't violate any site rules. Additionally the site itself (I didn't visit it, I am going by your description) isn't illegal in any way. It may ...
John CondeMod
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DMOZ shutting down
There appears to be only 17 questions containing DMOZ as a search term on the site, and 9 questions with the DMOZ tag.
The OP answered one of these questions titled Is DMOZ still 'active'? with the ...
danMod
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Why has my reputation gone from 21 to 1?
It was in the 20's about a year ago.
You only appear to have been a member of this site (Pro Webmasters) for "3 months" according to your Webmasters profile, and all your (Webmasters) rep seems to ...
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