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2021: a year in moderation
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How do we feel about people asking for off-site contact?
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Is questioning the philosophies of the FSF, OSI, CC, etc. allowed here?
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Open Source is leaving beta
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No [programming] questions here!
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About asking the team searching question on the opensource SE site
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Would the question "what if the license is refused" be on-topic?
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2020: a year in moderation
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Refining question to not be a duplicate - status of old version control revisions wrt licensing
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How can I make my closed question on-topic?
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What are the canonical questions we've discovered?
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Is it time for a list of canonical questions?
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Are source-available licenses off-topic?
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2019: a year in moderation
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Don't we get a "2019: a year in moderation" post?
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Perceived inconsistency between question closing argumentation and help center topic specification
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2019 Community Moderator Election Results
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2019 Community Moderator Election
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Announcing a Pro Tempore Moderator election
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How technical can questions about forking a FLOSS project get?
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Has Open Source Stack Exchange Failed?
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How do I ask for a license recommendation?
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How to request the formation of a wiki?
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Would this question about motivation for open source work be on-topic here?
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Can I put my inventions here?
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Can I quote parts of a GPL license?
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Can we please stop downvoting off-topic and duplicate questions?
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2018: a year in moderation
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Delete duplicate questions
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How do we feel about answers presented as comments?
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Copy-pasting old Stack Overflow questions
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Question about choice of a crowdfunding site
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Is it ok to take suggestion on an opensource project idea?
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Was I wrong to roll back this edit?
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Thanks to Mnementh! Also, what?
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Moderator Pro Tem Announcement
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Is 'zealot' not nice?
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Please re-open question "Does anyone curate a list of boilerplate terms-of-service?"
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New tag: [developer-certificate-of-origin]
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Reason to close "how to" question?
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Broken link to SE's main page on the side bar
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On-topic here? "Should I contribute to a (kind of) abandoned project, or continue my own?"
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Are Source Visible Questions On Topic?
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Is it on-topic to ask how free/libre/open a product really is?
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