Questions tagged [discussion]
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**Instructions for ALL Private Beta Members**
Thank you for deciding to commit to using Embedded Programming and Design. We are asking you to ask and answer at least 10 questions to fulfill your commitment. Also, please check the meta site of the ...
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Is overlap with GameDev SE a problem? — Advice from the first private beta
Proposal: Computer Graphics
After it was announced that the first Computer Graphics private beta was closing, the community decided to make a new proposal. Prior to the site's closure, there was a ...
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SwagOverflow - Clothing
I haven't seen a StackExchange site about clothing yet. If there is, please forgive me.
I have a place in mind, where you could ask questions about your outfits or clothes, or what to buy. Doesn't ...
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Allow questions to be asked in the language in which legal text are written when it is localised to a particular country
Proposal: Law
Recently I had many questions to mind which would require a large part of the question consist of citing part of legal texts.
It means most of the question will not be written in ...
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Have created advertisements on Reddit and Quora. Need your votes now!
Proposal: Arts and Crafts
Probably you can upvote these so that the many people see it.
Crafts reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/crafts/comments/3hjtz6/arts_and_crafts_qa_website_on_stackoverflows/
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Is cue sports a duplicate of sports?
Proposal: Cue Sports
It seems we already have a sports proposal in beta, would cue sports not be a direct subset?
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Wouldn't most questions be subjective?
Proposal: Will my idea work?
And if not, wouldn't most of the answers be subjective anyway? What person A and B think might contradict C and D. It also doesnt' seem like it'd give any real value ...
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Can ask patents be referred back to Area 51?
The ask patents subsite has almost died out. I don't think there is a way to intrinsically revive it, if it were a question, I'd say it needs severe moderator intervention. Out of the last 15 ...
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Is “Programming Languages” a duplicate of “StackOverflow” and/or “Programmers”?
Would you agree that Programming Languages a duplicate of StackOverflow and/or Programmers?
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How to describe a new proposal that is likely to be successful on SE?
Area 51 is what it is, and it is not perfect, nor likely to be updated anytime soon.
We have an FAQ but it does not really help to define what a viable or successful site might look like. There have ...
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Relaunches following failed attempts
As per the discussion of closings during private beta at Private betas, launches, relaunches, rules for promotion, and community partnerships, I'd like to request the feature that committers from ...
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We need more diversity, talk to your colleagues!! (About perceived duplicates and unsuccessful proposals)
First of all I'll say I love love love StackExchange. And I think it'd be awesome if communities from more fields of knowledge would spill their expertise to the CC internet.
TL;DR
We should be ...
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“@” ping doesn't work in the Example Questions?
In the example questions the "@" ping doesn't work in the comments. Meaning you don't get the usual suggestions of who you want to ping.
Is that by-design or a bug?
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Standardizing & Simplifying SE Site Names
This is a repost of an announcement/discussion on Meta Stack Overflow. I'm cross-posting here since this is where new sites are born and named, and because you may notice some proposal names ...
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This proposal is not a dupe
Proposal: French language
I don't agree that this is a duplicate of 'correct French usage'. It's a more generic forum that covers that, and translations. It seems too granular to split French ...
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What to we need to do to help this proposal succeed?
Proposal: Geography
From my limited observations - the previous iteration of this proposal ran out of steam, then ran out of time.
What can we do to ensure that this proposal sees success?
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Red color gives feeling that an error has occured when closing an example question
Closing an example questions makes red pop-up to show how many more users left.It gives feeling that error as received.
This should be changed to different color like: If needs 4 more users , color = ...
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Grammar errors in launched proposals excerpt
I noticed the launched proposals tab on area51. The excerpts of Mi Yodeya has a grammatical error.
The excerpt is
For launched Q&A site for those who base their lives on Jewish law and ...
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How to deal with low engagement?
If a proposal is progressing at the rate of 2-3 followers added per day, but the followers are not participating in question creation or discussions, is it a bad sign ? The followers are using their ...
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How to get people to visit newly created Area51 proposal?
I have an idea for a new proposal, and I think it's quite cool (don't we all?). But I am worried that I would not be able to attract traffic to the proposal. Having a cool proposal is one thing. But ...
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Questions of closed area51 proposals
How can I access the questions and answers of a closed Stackexchange beta site? Particularly, I am looking for http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/40518/big-data
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Area51 reputation calculation out of sync
Area51 has a reputation calculation problem.
Today I was at 175 rep. I opened http://area51.stackexchange.com/reputation saw a total rep of 160. I hit the "Trigger Reputation Recalc" Button and then ...
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Defining “Home Remedies”
I have found this space yesterday and I believe it would help to share knowledge with everyone to easily cope up with daily problems. People interested in Home Remedies should gather and share their ...
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Could be a good idea the creation of a proposal for disabilities issue?
I'm speaking about this thing:
Where do a user can ask something about disabilities? Some thing like, for a "normal" person; "how does the screen readers work on Chrome?" Or, for a blind person, "Can ...
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Community vs. subject - any best practices?
This is quite similar to:
SE Proposals: Breadth Versus Depth
But I hope, different enough to be worthy of discussion.
A good Stack Exchange site is one with a well-defined subject around which a ...
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Has anyone studied other potential Area51 criteria, that might be a better indication of a site's potential success?
I have looked at some of the most recent proposals that managed to survive the gruelling Area 51 processes. I will use the short form: q/d = questions/day (I'm trying to fit everythin on one line each)...
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Why is this question not shown up on its proposal?
This question, Network-related tags on existing sites, does not shown up in its proposal, Complex Networks, regardless of its score of 4. Why is that?
Proposal: Complex Networks
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Have created advertisements of Arts and Crafts on other sites. Need your votes now!
Proposal: Arts and Crafts
Following advertisements need 6 votes each to be displayed on the corresponding main sites.
I have done my bit. Can you help by voting now?
On Graphics site: https://...
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Is there a way to graph the commitment score of a proposal?
I did found a bunch of information about when the proposal turn from 100% commitment to beta, usual information is Tuesday of Wednesday the week after the proposal gets at 100%.
That's absolutely fine,...
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An area for Sagemath software
You may have heard of Sage. It is a free open-source mathematics software system licensed under the GPL to create a viable free open source alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica and Matlab.
Sage ...
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Why is some users unable to vote, comment or answer questions in the discussion zone
Two different users have told me that they are unable to vote, comment or answer in the discussion section. They complain that they see the discussion topic at the top of the proposal and when they ...
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Would questions about exams on topic?
Proposal: Language Learning
Some examples:
Do I need a TOEFL to study in Canada?
TOEFL vs IELTS?
Why doesn't GRE Physics have on my country?
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A proposal scope?
I go straight. I think that there should be another website (xxxxx.stackexchange.com) where you can tell some symptoms for your disease and people with more information with biology may answer you.
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Should food decoration be on topic here?
Proposal: Arts and Crafts
Should questions regarding cake or any food decoration be on topic on this site?
What does the community think?
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Difference between complex networks as science of ecosystems rather than a branch of physics portal?
Complex networks can be described as a sub-area of physics and mathematics, where you study how things entangle with each other.
After Barabasi and Newman (in my personal point of view) complex ...
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Can discussion “questions” be used to promote a site proposal or announce updates?
I've seen discussion "questions" such as this one which don't appear to have any purpose besides promoting the proposal and announcing things for a site. I'm referring mainly to posts that are ...
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apparently i cannot submit a discussion for my new proposal (was deleted but i recreated), i am getting message that this proposal was deleted!
Proposal: Customs and[]1 Border Control
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Can I discuss/ask about the relationship between composer's life and their song style?
Proposal: Music Fans
As this forum is titled "Music Fans", while music and songs are written by composers who most likely get their inspiration from their lives/philosophical principles/sociocultural ...
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Overview of Site (Pakistan)
Proposal: Pakistan
I am thinking about a site where people can ask matters related to Pakistan.
My nationality is Pakistani and I want to propose Pakistan.
I want people can discuss and ask ...
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Creating Email Etiquette Proposal
Is it okay to create the email etiquette page? This page will be dedicated for all the email related topics, because now that we are in the information age being ignorant about proper email header, ...
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What would a Site “Holiday” tell us?
I'm adding this discussion topic for thoughts on gamification and "brand" loyalty. Could Area 51 learn anything from placing a freeze on a site (and maybe prompting for feedback from visitors)?
What ...
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Why duplicate question doesnot closed here?
There are multiple question which are duplicate here, But they are not became close as it is done in other SE's. For example take these three question (1,2,3). All three question are completed ...
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does proposal to open websites with matured content welcome here?
i like to make a proposal for an site "sex games & toys" which can deal with adult games which revolve around the world since its an growing field and there were many users whom don't know where ...
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Resurrect Electronic Gadgets
The Electronic Gadgets site was closed a decade ago while still in beta.
The "council" tried to justify, as seen on this blog post.
But many of those arguments were flawed back then. Even less sense ...
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Code Translation Proposal: Example
I would like to post an example of what I think an everyday question with answer would look like in a new SE site I would like to call Code Translation.
User knows Perl, but is new to JavaScript:
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