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It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land... A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated: We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, …

It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land... A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated: We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in …

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 …

27,911 posts were deleted on Server Fault during the past 365 days (query run on Feb. 16th, 2016). That breaks down as follows: Post Type Deleted by... Post …

So, for the sake of discussion, let's have some numbers on what has been recently deleted, who deleted it, and why. …

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 …

Ok, the apache tag is now blacklisted: Along with this comes the requirement that a version-specific tag exists for each Apache version being asked about. In practice, this isn't likely to be too d …

Make something specific and descriptive and link to your meta discussion from it; ideally, this should describe why these questions are being closed well enough that anyone reading won't be confused. …

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 …

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 …

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. …

So... Normally, I would collect some data on how many tags are created by users at various rep levels, and how they were used. This is a pretty decent way to gauge whether anything of value would be l …

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'm a bit behind on emails. Fortunately, I have 8 of them from you, so there's a really good chance I'd have gotten to it eventually. But since you posted here, I've gone ahead and just scheduled you …

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 …