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What are the canonical questions we've discovered?

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Custom Badge Icon idea for Open Source SE

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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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Tour => Allowed or denied? Getting help in selecting software for a given task. Allowed to ask? Or against site rules?

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Are questions about project organisations and their processes welcome here?

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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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How should the [open-source] tag be used?

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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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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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I found a question that contains an answer that is weak and/or may be wrong. Should this question/answer be moderated somehow?

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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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Do we need clarification of "Open Source" in the help page?

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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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