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Is there room on Web Applications SE for questions about Electron and Go development?
I have an Electron and Go development question that I previously posted on Stack Overflow: I need to run commands with elevated privileges on my backend, but I think it is too big for the site's users....
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Question about whether some software is (F)OSS was closed as requesting "internal" information
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webapps.stackexchange.com/revisions/137992/4 asks the undermentioned:
While considering how much I should trust https://archive.org I started looking for its source code.
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We've a "question" problem; AI has an "answer" problem: My assessment of the Answer Bot experiment
I completed my assessment of the AI “Answer Bot” experiment and I don't see it as a good fit for Web Apps SE and don't support moving this experiment forward.
I found the answers to be overly long, ...
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Why was Web Apps SE removed from the current stage of the AI "Answer Bot" experiment?
According to a Meta Stack Exchange post by Berthold, a Community Manager, Stack Exchange has been conducting an experiment involving AI-generated answers on select sites. In the post, Berthold shared ...
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2024: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we bid farewell to the year that's concluded and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of ...
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Was the Web Apps SE moderator team consulted about the AI "Answer Bot" experiment?
The recent Meta SE post, "What is 'Answer Bot' and what is it doing?" has Philippe, SE's VP of Community, explaining that the "Answer Bot" (an AI powered by SE's LLM partners, ...
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How is my question not focused? I think it is focused
Someone closed my question for not being focused. The help page says:
Needs more focus - If your question has many valid answers (but no way
to determine which, if any, are correct), then it probably ...
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This site needs immediate help
The whole first page, and likely many more, is 100% spam. Can we have moderator/community manager intervention?
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Please unlock and reopen "How do I link a cell in Google Spreadsheets to a cell in another document?"
In March 2023, a moderator closed the 2010 question "How do I link a cell in Google Spreadsheets to a cell in another document?” under "needs details or clarity."
The moderator also ...
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Are questions about admin tools and capabilities of web apps on topic?
On this question, it's being argued that admin tools aren't on topic. It's not clear where that comes from. The FAQ entry doesn't advise on this at all. and this position doesn't make much sense to me....
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Why was the question "How do I hide the audit log on a Discord server?" migrated to Super User?
I'm a bit puzzled as to why the question "How do I hide the audit log on a Discord server?" was migrated to Super User, essentially marking it as off-topic. Since Discord is a web ...
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Post having issues with images. Is this caused by the change of image hosting?
On Stack Exchange’s image hosting arrangement with Imgur is ending - advance notice it was asked to make a post to report issues with image hosting. I just found a recent self-answered Q&A having ...
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Why were these tagging suggested edits rejected?
I submitted a bunch of suggested edits to retag questions from website to more specific tags for the web app they pertained to.
Four of these were rejected claiming "The edit does not improve the ...
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Suggest the community update the tag [security]
The main site tag security was flagged by a community member on suspicion that the content was copied without proper attribution.
The tag's usage guidance predated the published content cited as its ...
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Could mods please undelete and reopen all these questions that were automatically deleted due to incorrect mod closures ("Qs not showing research")?
Closed questions are automatically deleted in ~9 days if they have received no answers and have a score of 0 or less. There are a few more details about this deletion rule, but that's a good ...
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