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Why do some moderators use handles instead of their real names?
TL;DR
Pseudonymity on Stack Exchange is a feature, not a bug. It doesn't impact the ability to manage the site or handle "bad actors."
A More Detailed Explanation
Why do some moderators (and other ...
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Is it time to hold Moderator elections and share the Moderator burden at SE?
Yes and no...
Yes - we definitely need a new moderator more at least!
No - on beta sites there's no election process. Instead, the current mods / SE staff invite valuable members to help on the ...
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This site has been in beta for years, will it ever make it out?
It's interesting to observe how some sites are more active than others in terms of questions yet are still healthy communities. The revisited policy seems to recognize that certain domains and ...
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This site has been in beta for years, will it ever make it out?
The latest rules for graduation are documented here.
As long as this community is actively being moderated, it won't be closed:
If there's enough moderation for a public beta site to consistently
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Uncommented downvotes
Analysis
In comments, I mentioned that comments aren't mandatory on Stack Exchange, and that there almost 800 questions on Stack Exchange Meta about this issue. In general, the mechanic that applies ...
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Congratulations, you're no longer in Beta!
Congratulations, community! After 9 years, PM.SE has graduated!
I'd like to take this space to share some of the trending questions around the graduation. This information is likely to be kept ...
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BPM and BPMN questions
BPMN Isn't Normally a Project Management Practice
Unless you're working on a project that has business process re-engineering as a deliverable, I'm not sure that the Business Process Model and ...
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Does PM.SE benefit from having Specific tags for each MS Project version?
Tags Updated
There was a discussion about this in chat. After a little back-and-forth, I made some changes that will hopefully resolve this without a ton of extra work for the PMSE community.
I've ...
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Is it time to hold Moderator elections and share the Moderator burden at SE?
Your mod team here has supported the idea of getting some backup, as the older answer here shows. Today, I am happy to announce that CodeGnome is joining the mod team here to provide them with that ...
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Shall this site have an specific definition of "shopping question"?
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Software and tool recommendations are off-topic for a number of reasons. PMSE is neither a search engine nor a Consumer Reports style test lab, and the site's format is unsuited to providing ...
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Is it fair to include a product url that is related to Project Management in a Question?
First of all, thanks for asking on Meta first :)
TL;DR: highly likely to be considered offtopic.
Although self promotion could be OK from a StackOverflow perspective (also HERE and HERE), I don't ...
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Shall this site have an specific definition of "shopping question"?
Although I understand your frustration, I believe that the key difference between the Jira questions and the Excel question you raised is that no one is asking on these Jira questions 'what's the task ...
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How to ask for peer feedback on a free MVP of a pm related product here?
Stack Exchange isn't the right place for every question. Most stack sites, and PMSE in particular, are focused on canonical answers about a topic rather than soliciting opinions, feedback, or ...
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How do we stop a user from removing tags?
In 10th of November 2018, had a discussion with moderators about the usage of version specific tags. From this discussion, we ended up changing the description of the parent tag, namely ms-project.
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How do we stop a user from removing tags?
By opening a discussion, such as in a chat room, I'd suggest.
Also - are we sure that the Questions are actually specific to one version? And not just that the OP just happened to be having the issue ...
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there is no canonical answer
Questions that don't have potentially-canonical answers aren't a good fit for this site's Q&A format. That doesn't mean those discussions aren't worthwhile; it just means that Stack Exchange in ...
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Are terminology & comparison related questions on-topic?
TL;DR
Most of these questions will be off-topic. There may be occasional exceptions, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
The question cited was answerable, but I personally consider it a poor-quality ...
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Network unable to cope with flags
What Happened to the Spammy Posts
The two posts you referenced were addressed by the community, but insufficient action was taken by users with sufficient voting privileges. I eventually deleted ...
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Users writing tags in title
The link you provided is great!
The first phrase to come to my mind to answer this:
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and
you feed him for a lifetime.
So, ...
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Product Management questions - 2020 edition
As it stands, the best (and latest) answer for this question is available on THIS ANSWER from Todd.
I share the TL;DR excerpt here:
Product management as it relates to project management is certainly
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Are terminology & comparison related questions on-topic?
I see this in a slightly different approach.
What's more important? To accept as valid some questions that cannot
have a canonical answer or to leave the community without any answers
at all?
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Uncommented downvotes
This site is getting ridiculous. The negative votes with no comments are frustrating. It is clearly an agile-centric site now with all other answer being wrong.
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Duplicated Answer - how to flag?
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I've deleted the duplicate, but I can't really do more than speculate about why the flag was declined before, and offer some suggestions about how to flag this type of thing in the future.
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Should we promote upvotes on questions?
Incentives for Answering Low-Quality Questions
The linked question is a low-quality question. It doesn't "show research effort" nor is it "useful and clear." It was tagged for closure days ago, but ...
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Shall this site have an specific definition of "shopping question"?
Interesting question. I concur with the other answers, but I'll add that
"What's the best way to..." is semantically similar to "What's the prettiest girl..." - the answer depends on the ...
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Users writing tags in title
Think About Semantic Clarity of the Question
Context matters, and clarity is often the determining factor for me when I review titles. For example:
ruby: chars in var name
This is a terrible title ...
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Edit questions and answers
TL;DR
By all means, invest time in improving questions and answers on the site whenever you come across a post that needs improvement. However, actively seeking out edits that are primarily "missions ...
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Congratulations, you're no longer in Beta!
Congratulations! It is worth taking a step back and recognizing the incredible resource we've all built together, as a community. It provides answers to thousands of people a day with an active ...
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Permission to not disclose author's affiliation?
According to How to not be a spammer, the affiliation disclousure is required when the author makes mention of their product, website, etc.
NOTE: In the above referred article "product" ...
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How to handle a off-topic question that has a (potentially) very good on-topic question beneath it?
It's fundamentally a software recommendation question, and also a “freeware” shopping question that’s trying to work around a deeper organizational or budgeting dysfunction. Editing it enough to be on ...
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