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Forcing mods to mediate every single "canon or not canon" discussion just adds resistance to a process that already has plenty of that simply by its nature. …

As noted elsewhere, there's a 60-day age restriction on these migrations. This was implemented after a great deal of irritation was caused by folks carelessly shuffling well-regarded, on-topic posts b …

The highest question on SO is about processing arrays, and yet you didn't ask a single question about arrays there. The "broken windows theory" is probably more "truthy" than true; in the context of …

The night before you posted this, I had a long conversation with Gabe (my co-worker) about an attitude he keeps encountering on pt.stackoverflow.com: certain types of questions seem to spark an immedi …

Makes it hard to be communicative when I am actually being preventing from responding. You asked to discuss this in public, so I obliged. Once that began, neither one of us could put the genie ba …

What should the community take away? Stop looking for a savior I've watched one moderator after another tire and burn out here, but somehow the reason behind it never came into focus for me until this …

Since HopelessN00b wants to have this discussion in public, I will oblige. I was on the site today because we got a few different emails this past week about it. … Note that the question I just linked to is the only discussion of this I've been able to find, and concerns a newly-asked question. …

This has been proposed many times, and denied. If you want to bring an abusive user to the attention of a moderator, flag one of their posts for moderator attention and describe what's going on in t …

If you don't have anything to contribute to the original discussion, then what's the point of starting it all anew? …

The real FAQ for your site should live here - and you should populate it with whatever questions come up frequently, ideally by transforming one instance. If you can't easily close common questions as …

Yeah, it's pretty telling that half the questions in jabber also had xmpp already. Merged and synonymized.

Discussion of this close reason so far have been... pretty abstract. That's a shame; it's a waste of everybody's time. … These custom off-topic reasons aren't here to define the limits of what's on- and off-topic; that's what your help and about pages are for, and both should be informed by the discussion of specific topics …

For a while now, Google has supported their various Cloud Platform services on Stack Overflow, both in terms of directing developers to the site and in actually answering questions about using these s …

I didn't intend that comment as a "cheap shot" - there's only so much you can say in the space of a comment. A little bit of background might help here: along with most of the people on my team, I sp …

Server Fault's 4th moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the 2 new moderators are: They'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for voluntee …