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2015 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...
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Questions about extensions
Is it appropriate to ask questions about specific third-party extensions?
Or if there are extensions out there that do 'X'?
Also, what about people's experiences with particular extensions?
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Magento Site Design
My name is Joshua and I'm a product designer at Stack Overflow. First off, congratulations on your community moving out of beta!
Graduation and Your Site Design
Graduation comes with a few perks. One ...
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2018 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...
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Let's make this fun(-ish)
Since I cannot ask this on the main website because it will not be a question with much value for many readers, I decided to post it here.
What are the funny/useless/strange/... pieces of code you ...
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What are the requirements for this beta to graduate?
From time to time I take a look at this website's statistics on Area51.
I see that most of the criteria is set to 'Good' & 'Excelent'. The only one that 'Needs work' is the answer percentage.
What ...
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How should we manage magento versions?
Currently there are some tags ce-1.7, ce-1.7.22, ee-1.12 and so on.
I think it would make sense to limit this to the second-point releases as the last-point releases (such as 1.7.0.2) usually do not ...
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Reviewers: Please stop pressing "Looks OK" when it's not
I have flagged several non-answers using the Not an Answer flag. They are disputed because some (often the same) reviewers are selecting "Looks OK" in review:
https://magento.stackexchange....
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Could you support my documentation beta Magento proposal?
Note: You have to be on the Documentation beta in order to contribute.
I have posted a proposal on the Stack Overflow Documentation Beta site for the creation of Magento documentation.
I've been ...
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Mass Edit functionality
Do we have mass edit functionality?
or is there way I can unlock that,
every morning when I search some of the spelling they appears with new post like
https://magento.stackexchange.com/search?q=...
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It's election and graduation eve!
First things first:
CONGRATULATIONS, MAGENTO STACK EXCHANGE IS GRADUATING!
A few weeks ago, I quietly dropped a comment on the 2015 moderator nomination post to say that we on the SE team wouldn't be ...
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barely any upvotes compared to other SEs
On many other stack exchanges points are easy to come by. Scrolling down the first few pages of questions on this one, however, shows an extremely small amount of 'up-votes'. Why is this? How can ...
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Cleaning up magento.stackexchange.com: Join #magestackday!
It's time to clean up our loved Magento Stackexchange site!
On 7. + 8. November we will do an online "hackathon" (more a magestackoverflow-athon, official on twitter: #magestackday) dedicated to ...
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Funny / Useless / Horrible code from Magento Extensions
Since Let's make this fun(-ish) turned out to be a real success and after a discussion from last week on Twitter, WE decided (there are more of us) that was a nice idea to continue "the fun" with ...
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Let's promote a Healthy(-ier) Beta
See http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/48872/magento
Ahead of the "Let's get critical" monthly site review, we need to get out there and promote a healthier beta.
Right now we're falling ...
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Usage of the magento-1 tag if no version is specified in question
Since Magento 2 is out a great number of new questions is about Magento 2 and we need a way to distinguish general Magento 1 questions from general Magento 2 questions (as already discussed in Magento ...
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The quality of MageOverflow
Since the magento forum went on read only mode and all (most of) the traffic was redirected here the quality of questions and some answers really dropped.
Some of us really worked to get the answer ...
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User/Application Questions
This is a statement-y Meta question.
When I initiated the Magento SE proposal I was contacted by Stack and warned that the proposal might get closed. This was due to the large number of Magento ...
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What should I flag and what I shouldn't flag
I'm writing this post because lately I've been declining a lot of flags from different people and maybe this website needs a better explanation of what should be flagged or not.
The other purpose of ...
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How can I contact moderator?
How can I contact moderator personally.
I want to tell him personally because I have doubt on couple of people, and I think they are playing upvote - upvote .
So I want moderator attention on those ...
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Syntax highlighting
I am missing the PHP, XML and SQL syntax highlighting when using the code formatting, which we do have in StackOverflow.
For example: Find out to which categories a product belongs to
None of the ...
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How should the logo of Magento.Stackexchange look like?
Should and can we include the official Magento logo?
Or something derived?
Feel free to submit suggestions.
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What to do with questions & answers regarding free extensions?
Ref: Is there any free extension available for designing products label or cover in magento?
OP asks specifically for a free extension, but "answers": so far are paid extensions only. I deleted the ...
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2015 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
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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Moderators Needed [closed]
Every site needs people to handle moderation duties. While most of this can be done by folks using the site, there are a few tasks that require special privileges:
Even with active community self-...
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What is "on-topic"?
The current What topics can I ask about here? page is lacking.
Magento Stack Exchange is for users of and developers working with the Magento e-Commerce platform.
There have been several discussions ...
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Are Magento 2.0 questions allowed? [closed]
I know that Magento 2.0 is still under development and it doesn't have even an alpha release yet. Are we allowed to ask questions about it or we should limit to the released versions 1.x?
I know that ...
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Do We Really Need Third Party Extension Related Tags?
We have some third party related to tags in our systems. Some examples are below:
ecomdev-phpunit fooman-extensionfishpigfiregentoultimate-module-creatoraheadworks-ajaxcartproavs-fastsimpleimport
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How do we prevent, discourage, or punish users for making pointless edits to questions?
One of my questions was recently edited by a user.
The edit did not improve the question at all. The claimed reason for editing was "Spell Correction" [sic] but in fact the edit actually introduced ...
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Does magento-1 tag make any sense? [duplicate]
Does magento-1 tag make any sense? Would it be better to use ce-x.x.x.x and ee-x.x.x.x instead? This can avoid further clarification requests.
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Purpose of obsolete flag for comments
What is the purpose of the obsolete flag for comments ? Does that refer to dead links ?
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promoting of your own content
So far I haven't see any guidelines on how we want to deal with promoting your own content. Some questions that come to mind are:
Any etiquette we should follow?
Is it OK to link to your own blog to ...
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Automatically changed Profile pic and decreased points
Today I just logged to magento.stackexchange.com and shocked to see that my Profile Pic is changed and Reputation point is decreased (-125), saying −xx User was removed
Can any one say OR explain, ...
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New site design!
Congratulations! As you can see, the new site design just went live.
We have also themed the Twitter account and newsletter template for this site, and adjusted the privilege levels to higher ...
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Join us for #MageStackDay on Feburary 3rd and 4th 2017
We're back!
The MageStackDay #6 will happen on February 3rd & 4th!
MageStackDay is an online hackathon dedicated to answering, closing and cleaning up questions on magento.stackexchange.com. The ...
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The Magento Facts
The holidays are close.
This is the time when we should forget about work and try to be joyful.
Actually we should always be joyful.
So let's list here some "Magento Facts".
The facts can be about ...
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Serial upvoting
This is not a question, it's a request to the user who serial upvoted my posts on April 24th 2019 and to other people who might do serial upvote/downvote on anyone else posts.
Please stop this.
This ...
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Moderator Nomination - Round 2 [closed]
I assume that it is unusual for a Beta to have another round of Moderator Nomination, but we are not only some time old, we also have reached an impressive number of questions and users. And as the ...
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Let's review our guidelines for "off topic"
I've seen a rather high number number of off-topic flags that I have then marked as on-topic. In many cases I see close votes pile on in what could be interpreted as brigading.
On topic?
This ...
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Request for MageStackDay IV: Tag Cleanup
Hi, it's me, the tag janitor.
As the next MageStackDay is coming, I'd love to see a new section next to voting, answering and closing: tag cleanup.
IMHO the site has a problem with overspecific and ...
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Flagging comments
I'm writing this as a notice to the person(s) that lately started flagging as obsolete a lot of comments that request the OP to mark an answers as accepted.
Please stop that.
Those comments are not ...
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Magmi off topic?
I want to know explicitly if questions that exist only within the scope of Magmi (such that they are only useful to users of Magmi) are off-topic, as a question I posted recently got put on hold as ...
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Who should nominate him self as a candidate in elections?
I just saw that there is an election on our community & as we can see that many peoples are nominating their self as an aspirants in the election for the post of moderator.
I also filled the ...
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Should salutations be removed from questions?
While reviewing suggested edits I noticed that some users sometimes edit others posts and remove salutations like
[Question text which follows the rules]
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Thanks!
or
[Question text ...
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2018 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
Magento is scheduled for an election next week, February 19th. In connection with that, we will be holding a Q&A with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to ...
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List of standard comments for review
When reviewing questions by new users, I often find myself commenting roughly the same again and again.
In spirit of the Repository of useful pro-forma comments I would like to collect a list of ...
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What to do if peoples are working in a group, just to increase there profile reputation?
I have just seen on the MSE that some peoples are working in a group for just increasing their profile reputation.
For example like person-1 asks a question & within 20-30 minutes person-2 gives ...
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Should remove "Thanks" in the question or not?
When editing a question, I try to keep "Thanks" in the content. Others try to remove it? What should we do in this case?
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Top bar too bright, my eyes are getting tired
First of all, this new design is really awesome. I would like to thank all of the team member who made it possible.
I am creating this post because @Hynes suggested to New site design!
This is ...
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