Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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Please welcome your new pro tem moderator!
Your mod team here has supported the idea of getting some backup, as first discussed at Is it time to hold Moderator elections and share the Moderator burden at SE?. Today, I am happy to announce that ...
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A Call for Q&A Bloggers: Answering your own Question
Recently, the community managers reminded us that this is not only acceptable, but desirable to answer your own question by adding an "Answer Your Own Question" checkbox right below "Post your ...
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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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Once again, obsolete comments not deleted- why this time?
In this question I once more assisted with clarification with the OP and in this case I asked questions in the comments, the OP answered and I asked them to edit their answers into the question. They ...
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HoHoHo! Hat Dash 2014 is here! Are we in?
Since 2012, as a promotional effort, Stack Exchange runs an event called "Hat Dash", which almost every site in the Stack Exchange network participated in, where users earned hats for their avatars ...
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Teaching more users how our site works
On another Stack Exchange site I contribute to, I was surprised to learn how many high reputation contributors don't know about some of the key features of Stack Exchange, and many of the tools at ...
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Should accepted answers be pinned or should answers be strictly ordered by vote?
Stack Exchange staff have announced a proposal around the way answer acceptance works - more details can be seen at this meta SE post - unpinning the accepted answer from the top of the list of ...
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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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Deleting "broken windows" on PMSE
We have a number of old questions that are closed, and that have no answers or links to duplicate questions. In other words, they are broken windows, rather than signposts to on-topic content.
I'm ...
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2022: 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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Usage of pm.se chat for knowledge & event sharing?
As someone who likes to attend meetups and get to know about nice videos & workshops to get up to speed with the latest around management & leadership, I've always struggled to know how to be ...
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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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Community Promotion Ads — 2020
You lost your “beta” label in 2019, so welcome to your very first edition of Community Promotion Ads, for the year of 2020!
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion Ads are community-...
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Act with Flags and Reviews in one single post
When reviewing a Low Quality Post, appeared a post that is not an answer but a thank you comment.
Considering my all my possible actions, I could at least
"Recommend Deletion" right away and this ...
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HoHoHo! Winter Bash 2015 is here!
The end of the year is upon us, and here in Stack Land, that can only mean one thing: it's time for Winter Bash 2015!
Event Overview
Winter Bash is a fun, lighthearted event we run every year as a ...
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Review Queues and the PMSE Notice Board
I went through the close vote review queue and cleaned up some stuff that had been lingering around for awhile that should have probably been put on hold a little sooner.
Most of the posts had 3 or 4 ...
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The Great Tag Wiki Cleanup of 2012 and early 2013
In a recent discussion regarding What's the difference between the tools tag and the pm-software tag? as well as this question about Revisiting Tool Recommendation Questions, we've come to the ...
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Is anyone interested in a voting contest?
Mark and I were discussing on this question, How close are we to coming out of beta?, what things we would need to do to get closer to coming out of beta.
We're doing great, but if we graduated today,...
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Are users coming from Google confused about what answer will be best for their problem?
In a discussion about using downvotes on PMSE, CodeGnome, as well as a few other users, point out that some questions tend to get competing answers due to the subjective nature of project management.
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New Beta Theme Launched
Your site looks a bit different today. Yes, we are getting rid of the 'Sketchy' look and replacing it with a more-polished and finished design for sites in beta.
You can read more about the redesign ...
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Discussion about new tags we may need to add to the site or otherwise make on-topic
Revisiting Tags and Topics to Remain Relevant & Encourage More High-Quality Questions
Recently, this post caught my eye bcause at first glance I didn't think it was a PM question. After looking ...
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AI-Generated Answers on Project Management
The use of ChatGPT and other services and tools to generate answers to questions on Project Management, or any Stack Exchange site, comes with risks. Please use these tools carefully.
If you do decide ...
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2021 Community Moderator Election
The 2021 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...
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Chat room for flags?
Yesterday found another a SPAM answer, flagged accordingly but the answer still remains there. This isn't something new in this community and it's understandable if we consider there's people behind ...
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Meeting up at Scrum Gathering
I hope it's ok to post this here - I'll happily remove it if not. It's great being part of this StackExchange community with you all. I was wondering if anyone else was going to Scrum Gathering April ...
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How to prevent spam answers on questions that ask about products but are borderline recommendation questions?
How should the community handle this question, and those like it, in order to avoid spam or one-liner answers: How do I select project management software for our current workflow?
My Thought ...
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Interesting Way to Write a Question
I happen to be hanging around when an avid user from Stack Overflow, viyancs, visited our site to post a question about a problem he was facing. His question was a little vague, and it was only about ...
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Are you Following the Official Project Management StackExchange Twitter Account?
If you're a Twitter fan and spend time retweeting questions, you may want to consider following @StackProjects.
https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/StackProjects
StackProjects is the official ...
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When Should a Question be Closed? [Part 1]?
To help us identify questions that should be closed, I thought it would be a good idea to highlight the questions that should definitely not be closed.
To help eliminate confusion on what should be ...
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Next steps around my first question: edit, bounty, posting a follow-up question or something else
My first question in the the main site is Is "citizen development" <software development> an old thing with new name in the project management field?. It was a "hot question",...
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Can I ask for a critique of an aspect of our development process?
For example, would it be considered off-topic if:
I posted some project requirements along with corresponding User Stories I created and asked for a critique of my stories?
I'm pretty sure I already ...
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Area 51 Stats for 2012
Here are the stats for Area 51 for December 2012...
These were pulled from the web archive
December 2012:
May 2012:
January 2012 (a year ago):
Source:
Jan 2012 Area 51 Web Archive
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Should this question about where to get KPI's be reopened?
This question, https://pm.stackexchange.com/questions/6681/where-to-get-benchmark-data-for-key-performance-indicators-in-payroll-management, was closed as NARQ for lack of detail. We left some helpful ...
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Edited Question "Books and information regarding CAPM" into Shape!
I just found this post Books and information regarding CAPM [Original Revision], which at first glance didn't seem very constructive:
What are the best books or study material for the CAPM ...
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Did the edits to this question improve it enough to make it a good, on-topic question?
I edited a recently-posted question: What are the metrics that can be analysed or derived from a Gantt Chart?
I didn't think it needed to be closed because, as a developer/PM, I could relate to the ...
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Announcement: StackExchange Review Scheduled To Happen In Next Month
A member of the StackExchange Community Team mentioned to me that our site is schedule for a public review, most likely in the next month.
The good news is that our stats overall are looking good. ...
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