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Questions that may not necessarily have a clear-cut right or wrong answer and are often subjective. If your question isn't a bug report, feature request, or request for support, it's probably a discussion.
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Join us for our first community-wide AMA (Ask Me Anything) with Stack Overflow’s CEO (and a ...
AMA question:
Do you use any Stack Exchange sites yourself? Your network profile shows little activity, but do you perhaps use various sites in a read-only capacity? If so, what do you think of the us …
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What does the public really need from us?
I don't have a full answer for you. Instead, I'll look back to the time when I was just another member of "the public", before I became a moderator, before I made an account, before I knew what Stack …
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What can be cut away, and why?
The idea that we need to get more users to sign up
Many tech companies doggedly pursue higher user counts as a metric of success. But what we need isn't more user accounts, it's more user activity. Mo …
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Magic wand time - what does your community need?
Better spoilers
The site I started on, Puzzling, has a lot of spoilers. Many (if not most) answers have a significant amount of content in spoilers, and many questions have a hint (or hints) in spoile …
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Reducing the weight of our footer
status-completed
The categories with two words in them are now separated with an ampersand & and the second word is uncapitalized, instead of a slash / and capitalization, as before:
Old:
New:
The p …
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Update to Cookie Consent Banner for non-EEA/UK users
new users and site visitors outside of the EEA/UK will now be automatically opted in to having non-essential cookies
Please don't automatically set cookies that you admit are non-essential. I don't …
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Should trusted close/reopen voters and reviewers have their votes weighted more than others'?
Whatever the rules are, please make them as simple as possible
People are already confused by how sometimes moderators and gold-badge holders can unilaterally close/reopen questions. Fortunately, thos …
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Reducing the weight of our footer
bug status-completed
The "Life & arts" link leads to the list of "Technology" sites.
<a href="https://stackexchange.com/sites#technology"
" Life & arts " == $0
</a>
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Sub-Communities Survey Announcement
Do smaller Stack Exchange sites count as "sub-communities"?
For example, on this question:
If yes, please name the smaller communities within Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange.
Should I name "Puzzlin …
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How did you develop your understanding of the Stack Exchange network?
I was one of those users who figured stuff out with likely-startling alacrity. I actually had a pretty good grasp of how the network functioned even before I joined my first site. How? I read per-site …
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New Staff and Mod Labels on site metas and Meta Stack Exchange
status-completed
Is it intentional that the new icon cuts/rounds off the top and bottom tips of the diamond? Personally, I liked the sharply defined points. The degree of cutting off varies from place …
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Community Asks Sprint Announcement - October/November 2025
Better spoilers would be a massive usability improvement on Puzzling, the site I moderate. This includes:
Fixing their lack of keyboard accessibility
Easier nested formatting, especially for tables ( …
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What’s on your mind?
I'm bobble. If you've spent any significant amount of time on Puzzling Stack Exchange, then you recognize me. I am a very active curator there. I believe I'm the most active. Moderating on Puzzling ha …
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Is this [text] useful?
There’s a tag text, with 24 questions and no excerpt or wiki. It seems to be used to refer to… text, somewhere on the site. This is a wee bit broad - there are a lot of different places text is presen …
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The Skills of Great mods
tell me about a time a mod did something that struck you as really extraordinary
The most extraordinary thing I've seen a mod do was something I didn't see at all.
There was a user who had been beha …
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