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Should we allow questions about other parts of the software toolchain?

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Persistent bugs hindering users from participating: Failure of StackExchange to recognize when Area51 & SE accounts have the same email address

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The FAQ update: Answer the frequently asked questions!

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How does removing upvote on Area51 influence reputation and badges?

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Would a proposal for issues related to disabilities and accessibility be a good idea?

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Will questions about building and maintaining a programming language's community or contributors be allowed?

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What is a programming language?

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How does "Programming Language Design and Implementation" overlap with existing SE communities?

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Why is my identicon different on this site from that on other SE sites?

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Would there be interest in a site for Self Improvement?

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Would a stack in laser engraving be counted as an art or a technology?

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Should we allow questions about the procedure of creating programming languages?

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Should we allow questions on literature about programming language design/implementation?

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Why are so many example questions downvoted?

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How can we contact those who signed up for a proposal?

iwein
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Are more people having trouble signing up and voting on the agriculture proposal?

iwein
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Promote Agriculture & Farming

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Is the process for creating for creating a new site broken?

iwein
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Should we rename our site to include "and implementation"?

lyxal
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Is there a difference between closed proposals and removed proposals?

iwein
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Should "should" questions be allowed?

Karl Knechtel
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Should questions about design decisions in existing languages be on-topic?

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Strange pattern in voting

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Will another proposal for Stack Overflow in another language be acceptable now?

Nike Dattani
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Are questions about reimplementing languages that's made by others, on topic?

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Will PLD allow list questions?

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Cryptocurrency Stack Exchange site

Melroy van den Berg
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Are questions regarding implementation of existing languages on topic?

Redwolf Programs
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A mostly opinion-based site?

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Should both language design and language implementation be on-topic?

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Should esoteric programming language design be included?

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Will questions about graphical/low code languages be on topic for language design

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Do we want questions that are less technical and more UX-related?

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Another former employee showing on moderator list

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Can I ask here if a site is a good idea?

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Can we have a 'duplicate proposal' flag?

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Isn't this covered by The Great Outdoors?

V2BlastStaffMod
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Why does closing an example question use the menu of old close reasons?

V2BlastStaffMod
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Does closing questions count against the "percent answered" & "answer ratio" statistics?

V2BlastStaffMod
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Add some custom community-specific close reasons reasons to the Area 51 Discussion Zone

V2BlastStaffMod
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Should financial/investment topics be considered off-topic on the newly proposed Cryptocurrency SE site?

V2BlastStaffMod
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Can we add a custom close reason specific to Area 51?

V2BlastStaffMod
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Proposal deleted error!

V2BlastStaffMod
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Reason for closing a proposal

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Proposed new custom close reason for Area 51 Discussions (this site): "This should be an example question, not a meta question"

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Is there a way to communicate for all the followers or committers of a proposal?

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Minimum number of people for a successful proposal

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