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"What did you do before posting"
The site is gaining traction - awesome, but a big proportion of new questions are people just treating Magento.SE as their personal development team for debugging their store.
We're here to help - ...
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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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Downvoting notable community figures
I find it very difficult to down-vote one-sentence answers that don't provide real direction, or is a link to an article only, when the answer comes from a notable figure in the community, or, someone ...
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Acceptability of Code Reviews
Some tertiary StackExchange sites allow code reviews (Gavedev, for instance), though limited in scope. Some are more strict about policing this policy than others.
What should be our policy regarding ...
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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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Code coloring in preformatted text
When adding pre-formatted text in the Markdown editor on main, the text doesn't get coloured even when I explicitly tell it that it is PHP code like this example:
<!-- language: lang-php -->
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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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Let's get critical: Mar 2013 Site Self-Evaluation
We all love Magento - Stack Exchange, but there is a whole world of people out there who need answers to their questions and don't even know that this site exists. When they arrive from Google, what ...
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Users Page During a Beta
Is the Users page supposed to work during a beta? I navigated there directly and the reputation counts seem way off.
https://magento.stackexchange.com/users
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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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Upvoted comments point value
Do upvoted comments accrue points in the beta? I have a few upvoted comments very recently that don't seem to have moved my point total at all...
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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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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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Getting Listed as an "Off Topic" Option for Stack Overflow?
How can we get the Magento Stack Exchange beta site listed as an on topic source for non programming Magento questions asked on StackOverflow?
That is, when a question is being closed on ...
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General questions about various experiences with Magento (the company)
Is it appropriate to ask questions about Magento (Magento, Inc., an eBay Company (X.Commerce)) ?
It would be a great place to find out what other people (Magento Partners, Magento customers) ...
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RSS Feed for magento Stackexchange
Am I blind? Or is there no feed for all questions? If there is no, how do we get one? :-)
How much text, do I need to write to "meet our quality standards"?
Answer: this was enough now. :(
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Editing your answer that seems to be missleading after reviewing the comments
I was wondering about the following situation:
You read a question
You answer the question
After people comment on your answer you notice that it is possible that you have misunderstood the question
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Questions which solicit opinion
According to https://magento.stackexchange.com/faq#link-dontask we should refrain from unanswerable questions.
Can you please describe to me the major differences between this question which ...
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Is it good/allowed to link SO questions to this website
Is it allowed/good practice to add a comment to Magento related SO questions like this?
please mind posting your question at https://magento.stackexchange.com/
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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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Is anybody already reviewing edits?
For review you need 1000 rep - but we do not have any user so far with such reputation.
What is currently happening to edits?
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Where is the line drawn on seeding?
I'm a big advocate of self-answered questions when the answer has genuine value. As I'm guilty of doing this myself on one occasion on here.
I know seeding a BETA is considered bad form - so I just ...
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Questions specific to programming issues
Even after reading the FAQ, I'm still asking myself:
Are questions specific to programming/coding issues allowed on magento.se, or are they not (and should be migrated to stackoverflow.com)?
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Should those profiting from answers be allowed to ask questions?
I'm struggling to find the comparative question from Meta Server Fault - but I believe there is a ruling down a similar vein as to this.
Taking this question as an example. It begins with
in a ...
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Meta-meta: No FAQ tag?
When I posted this meta question I was surprised I couldn't add the tag faq to it. (Evidently it's moderator-only.) What is the appropriate tag to use to indicate a meta question about the FAQ?
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Please update the FAQ to reflect soft questions are OK
There was a fair amount of contention about Onepage checkout, or not Onepage checkout, and it seems to be considered a valid question. The contention may largely have been over confusion about the FAQ,...
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Association Bonus
When I connected my Stack account to the Magento Beta, I did receive the 100 points for an association bonus.
I wondered if anyone could explain why that happened? Two of my colleagues received the ...
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How should we handle Magento questions on Stackoverflow?
Since magento.se is now in public beta, how should we handle question about Magento in other se websites?
I mean, if a good question about Magento is asked on Stackoverflow, do we have to flag it as ...
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Can we promote Magento Developer event?
When I speak about Magento Developer events, I think about the non-profit events like the Hackathon, not the Meet Magento or Imagine. The Hackathon is definitively destinated for the developers, done ...
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Can I repost unanswered questions from Stack Overflow?
I have several questions on Stack Overflow which were never closed, but never received an answer. Would I be allowed to repost the same question here (as long as it's Magento related)?
If so, would ...
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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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Generic answers for questions
I spent some time looking at unaswered questions tagged magento on Stackoverflow and I noticed the following:
off-topic/duplicate questions
vaguely defined questions
questions I didn't understand (...
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Asking a question with a known answer
Earlier today, I was about to submit a new question regarding layout XML. Before submitting, I had a simple thought that I figured I'd try, and it ended up working.
I was hesitant to then ask the ...
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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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Magento Admin Questions
Which is the right tag for asking questions that are related to adminhtml programming and configuration questions?
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Linking a stackoverflow question not working as expected
Usually when pasting a link to a stackoverflow question (on most stackexchange sites), the site parses the url and replaces the text of the link with the question title.
For example:
When this link ...
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Can we ask questions related to E-Commerce here?
As we know magento is an E-commerce platform and user might ask related questions. I can only one new proposed site in stackexchange is directly related to E-commerce. Should we not classify such ...
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Who, if anyone, can move questions from Stack Overflow over to the Magento site?
The link below suggests that people with reputations of 3k or more can at least begin this process for a given thread
Move questions between Stack Exchange sites
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Magento EE and Go questions
Magento (the company, part of eBay, etc) states provides support for EE and Go customers. From my experience as an ex-partener and from my customers experience, Magento support is not really keen on ...
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Are you allowed to ask questions related to estimates?
For example, how long does it take to install / configure Apache Solr as the search engine for a Magento CE build?
Perhaps a related question (or a part of that question) would be to break the task ...
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Are you allowed to repost closed questions from stackoverflow?
This was a great question that ultimately got closed on stackoverflow:
How do you give estimates for Magento upgrade? [closed]
In general are you allowed to simply repost relevant questions?
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