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The FAQ update: Answer the frequently asked questions!
My apologies for the misunderstanding of the FAQs before submitting the Stack Exchange proposal on Area 51. However, I had difficulty getting a grasp of what was expected, from the first to the ...
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Should we allow questions about other parts of the software toolchain?
Proposal: Programming Language Design and Implementation
Compilers are, of course, only one part of the software development toolchain. There are other tools that are language-adjacent, such as ...
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Will questions about building and maintaining a programming language's community or contributors be allowed?
Proposal: Programming Language Design and Implementation
Basically what is says on the tin. On CGCC we have a couple of questions about golfing language design, one of which partially focuses on what'...
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Why is my identicon different on this site from that on other SE sites?
This is more or less the same question as Why is my identicon different on Area 51? All the other sites share a single identicon, but the answer there hasn't worked since 2015.
What do I need to do to ...
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Would a stack in laser engraving be counted as an art or a technology?
Sack exchange has a stack for 3D printing, but it doesn't have one for the similar topic of laser engraving. One is an additive tool, the other is a subtractive tool, so it's logical that there should ...
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Would there be interest in a site for Self Improvement?
Related Question: Would a self improvment / self help QA be a good addition to Stack-exchange?
Related Closed Proposal: Personal Productivity
Many people are interested in self-improvement, and there ...
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How does "Programming Language Design and Implementation" overlap with existing SE communities?
Proposal: Programming Language Design and Implementation
I've chatted with a few of the users behind this proposal in chat (and internally with other members of the Community Management Team), and ...
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Should we allow questions about the procedure of creating programming languages?
Proposal: Programming Language Design and Implementation
Should we allow questions about how to start when creating languages, how to plan the design process and set up a compiler/interpreter?
Even ...
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What is a programming language?
Proposal: Programming Language Design and Implementation
I saw a question about esolangs, which mentioned that
... Esoteric languages are still programming languages ...
But what are programming ...
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Why are so many example questions downvoted?
Proposal: Programming Language Design and Implementation
I've looked at the example questions of this proposal, and noticed that about a third of them have downvotes. Curiously, a lot of the downvoted ...
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Are more people having trouble signing up and voting on the agriculture proposal?
Proposal: [Agriculture][1]
I'd like to find a solution to get my community on board. It seems that three out of four people trying to sign up are running into a bug. Please let me know in the comments ...
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Is the process for creating for creating a new site broken?
I want to start agriculture.stackexchange.com. I created a quick document to describe the process and shared it with a handful of influencers from different communities.
The initial enthusiasm quickly ...
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Should we allow questions on literature about programming language design/implementation?
Proposal: Programming Language Design
Currently we've had multiple questions posted asking for recommendations of books, blogs, or other resources relating to our site's topic, including:
What ...
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Should we rename our site to include "and implementation"?
Proposal: Programming Language Design (and Implementation? :p)
Following up on a brief discussion in chat, it seems that people would support including programming language implementation in our site'...
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Should questions about design decisions in existing languages be on-topic?
Proposal: Programming Language Design
Why did language <x> choose to have feature <y>, a closed question as of when this was posted, has spawned a long discussion in its comments about ...
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Should "should" questions be allowed?
Proposal: Programming Language Design
We've currently got a lot of questions formatted as "should I/my language [...]", such as:
Should I have the concept of a "statement" ...
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Strange pattern in voting
Proposal: Programming Language Design
Every question that has received more than 5 votes was submitted over a 2 day period, November 17 and 18.
Very few of the questions submitted in the last 6 weeks ...
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Are questions about reimplementing languages that's made by others, on topic?
Proposal: Programming Language Design
Are questions about reimplementing languages that's made by others, on topic? (Title)
Examples:
Questions about adding new monads/dyads to a golfing language.
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Will another proposal for Stack Overflow in another language be acceptable now?
I am considering creating a new proposal for Stack Overflow in Thai language but, from what I have done the research, this post is the most recent information I can find where it means that the system ...
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A mostly opinion-based site?
Proposal: Programming Language Design
The subject of this proposed site seems to encourage questions that are a bad fit for Stack Exchange. Indeed, most of the (as-of-writing) top-voted sample ...
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Are questions regarding implementation of existing languages on topic?
Proposal: Programming Language Design
In this meta post "Should both language design and language implementation be on-topic?" @curiousdannii said:
Questions about implementing existing ...
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Should both language design and language implementation be on-topic?
Proposal: Programming Language Design
Programming language design and programming language implementation are very different things. While there isn't really a good home on the SE network for language ...
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Should esoteric programming language design be included?
Proposal: Programming Language Design
Title.
Esoteric programming languages (though recreational) are still programming languages that go through the same design process as non-esoteric programming ...
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Will questions about graphical/low code languages be on topic for language design
Proposal: Programming Language Design
Basically title. If people are developing languages like unreal blueprints, scratch, lowcode etc. would these questions be on topic? Specifically if these ...
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Do we want questions that are less technical and more UX-related?
Proposal: Programming Language Design
The vast majority of the high-scoring questions at the moment are about the technical side of programming language design (how do I implement ...). Many of them ...
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Will PLD allow list questions?
Proposal: Programming Language Design
What are common ways to optimise an interpreted language? has been closed, as not constructive.
After some discussion in chat, I think it would probably be best ...
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I have fought Area 51's signup system, and won... but at what cost?
I'm a Stack Exchange user of a few years and was recently pointed at the Area 51 proposal for a Programming Language Design SE. So I tried to sign up to express my interest in supporting such a site. ...
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Are 5 users willing to Follow a proposal for ebikes.stackexchange.com?
There seem to be a lot of ebike-related questions that involve information about not only bicycles, but also electrical engineering, and even mechanical engineering. I'm not much on social marketing ...
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Should financial/investment topics be considered off-topic on the newly proposed Cryptocurrency SE site?
Proposal: Cryptocurrency
I saw "What are the safest investment strategies for "long-term" (4+ yrs) profiting in volatile crypto markets?" appear under example questions.
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Crypto: For cryptocurrency developers, investors and general enthusiasts interested in financial freedom
Proposal: Cryptocurrencies
Might i suggest using the URL
crypto.stackexchange.com
Crypto: For cryptocurrency developers, investors and general enthusiasts interested in financial freedom.
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Scope of the new cryptocurrency SE site [closed]
Proposal: Cryptocurrency
Proposed URL: cryptocurrency.stackexchange.com (this is not final, in fact open for debate)
Open discussion about the scope of the cryptocurrency site.
Idea is to use labels ...
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Cryptocurrency Stack Exchange site
Proposal for creating a new Stack Exchange site dedicated to cryptocurrencies that currently not have their own SE site.
Like Bitcoin Cash (BCH) , Ethereum Classic (ETC) and other cryptocurrencies for ...
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Why our proposal was deleted even though we met initial requirements?
I've just noticed our proposal "Flow visualization" was deleted. I have two questions.
Why I wasn't notified?
We met initial requirements: 5 questions and 5 upvotes within the first 3 days. ...
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Seed community for a proposal doesn't have other StackExchange accounts (and have never heard of SE before), what to do?
Hello dear Area51 community.
We've faced a difficulty with the proposal. The majority of the initial community of people with whom I created the proposal doesn't have another SE account and had never ...
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Can I ask here if a site is a good idea?
If I have an idea for a site, but want feedback from other SE users before building the community and officially submitting a proposal on Area 51, is it okay to ask here?
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Do I have to start a community off SE to submit a proposal?
If I want to start a site about XYZing, do I have to start an XYZing community myself before submitting the proposal, or is it okay for me to join an existing XYZing forum and post about the ...
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Research about minimum requirements in beta sites
When a proposal goes to beta, there are some minimum activity requirements. In specific,
10 questions per day on average
90% answered is a healthy beta
150 users with 200+ rep
2.5 answers per ...
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Banner still visable on the Solana proposal
Proposal: Solana
The banner saying that the beta is starting July 12th is still visible even thought the beta has started.
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How to deal with existing questions when new site gets approved
Proposal: Spryker
Suppose we manage to get the proposed Spryker Site approved.
How would we collect and steer already existing Spryker related questions to the new site?
There are already some fine ...
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Beta Dashboard for Metrics: Private vs Public Beta
The Area51 Dashboard for proposals in the Beta phase show updated metrics and average benchmark suggestions for proposals that are strong vs proposals that need help:
There has been updated guidance ...
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If you are showing a rep of 51 or 151 you may have committed incorrectly. Make sure you link you SO account
Proposal: Solana
Make sure you link your Stack Exchange accounts!
It is very important that you link correctly or your participation will not count!
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Forum about UI Automation
Graphical User Interfaces will never lose their importance since most software is - at some end - supposed to be used by humans. Automating interactions with GUI's is a crucial activity in many modern ...
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Change the first example on the Markdown help page
Currently, on the MD editing help page the first example can offend some people because of what it says and it is gender-specific.
It currently says:
printf("goodbye world!"); /* his ...
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Will Unregistered Users or people who have not committed be able to join the private beta once it has started?
Proposal: Bioacoustics
We have many folks that are "Unregistered Users" from the Commit stage - will they still be invited to the private beta, or do they need to fix their registration and ...
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Congratulations to Bioacoustics on completing the Commitment phase!
Proposal: Bioacoustics
Bioacoustics has collected the necessary number of commitments to proceed to the Private Beta phase, where you will be able to ask and answer questions and show that your ...
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Another former employee showing on moderator list
This seems to be a regression of https://area51.meta.stackexchange.com/q/32755/151554; right now, Stack Overflow co-founder Joel Spolsky, who is no longer an employee, is a ♦ moderator on this site. ...
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Is there a difference between closed proposals and removed proposals?
My proposal for an Agriculture site was removed due to lack of activity, to which I agree. I would have liked to have a bit more time to fix it. I'm pretty sure it was less than 30 days after ...
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Former employee (again) showing on moderator list
Historically, Area 51 had no community moderators, as per the FAQ, with all moderation being handled by staff.
Now, it seems like Area 51 Discussions has a community moderator, in the form of Juan M (...
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Approximately what size community is required to start a proposal? [duplicate]
When going to create a new proposal for a site, one of the fields is "Please link to the organization or website organizing this effort". It further specifies: "If you do not yet have a ...
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Area 51 is no longer allowing individual blockchain, cryptocurrency, or web3 proposals
The web3 space is a fast-growing sector of the technology industry. We continue to hear about new blockchain or cryptocurrency-based technology that could change the way things are done. Before I ...
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