Unanswered Questions
16 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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OSI and Open Source SE
According to this Area 51 Discussion Post, the Open Source Initiative was contacted regarding the use of their logo. In the end, the OSI was interested in promoting this site, hoping to use it to ...
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Advertising Open Source - Community Ads for 2016
It's 2016, and the new 300px-wide sidebar has just rolled out network wide. When that's complete, graduated sites around the network will start to run new community ad cycles.
To be ready for them, ...
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How is this question off-topic?
I stumbled on this question about the infamous case of Google and Oracle, concerning the integration of Java and Android. I've edited the question, but here is the original:
As many people know, ...
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2020: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...
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Announcing a “Graduation” election for 2023
Summary: Open Source Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for an election on October 24, 2023, as your “graduation” election as a result of having lost your beta label a while back and a ...
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Announcing a Pro Tempore Moderator election
Summary: Open Source Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for a special election on September 16 to bring in one more moderator.
For full details of the process, see the announcement on ...
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What are the criteria for which a name will be considered acceptable?
Tim Post (Director of Stack Overflow Communities) has visited this site before to help us with the issue of choosing a site name. He and the other staff had ruled out the 'Free & Open' name, but I ...
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2019: a year in moderation
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, ...
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2018: a year in moderation
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 ...
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2021: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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Does [commercial] and [monetization] tags have too big of an overlap for them to be merged?
Background: I have asked How can free and open source projects be monetized? (2015) back when we had no idea what to do with our tags, and [monetization] was created since that felt like the tag that ...
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Broken link to SE's main page on the side bar
The side bar has a link to "more site stats" on SE's main page:
The link seems to be broken. It points to https://stackexchange.com/sites?expand=true#opensource, which after a couple of seconds just ...
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Featured question doesn't carry the featured tag?
Winter Bash 2016 is almost here - do we want to participate? has been featured for quite a while now.
It's been nearly a month that it hasn't carried the featured tag. But for some reason, it keeps ...
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Vote appropriately to set the lines of our scope
As many members of the community were concerned that the scope was too narrow and that many questions were veering towards a particular topic, some members of the community have now started to draw ...
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Are tag posts really "deleted"?
I've started writing tag wiki's, but I'm getting this:
That's the only thing on the page. The link is fine: http://opensource.stackexchange.com/edit-tag-wiki/70
I haven't had any problem editing ...