Questions tagged [discussion]
If it's not a bug, feature-request or request for assistance, it is probably a discussion.
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Stop voting to put Drupal questions on hold as "Questions on programming, PHP, SQL, etc."
I see this more and more these days. There are questions like this - not so good ones, maybe should be put on hold, maybe not. Doesn't matter. It is a question about Drupal, Drupal-specific tools (...
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Show pop up to users who downvote spam question to flag it as spam
I lost track of the count of spam posts that came in today morning. One thing which I noticed was that as usual there were 8 or 9 downvotes to all of these questions instead if they were flagged they ...
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We need canonical questions for migrating DEV -> STAGING -> LIVE
I just closed another question that had to deal with migrating from DEV to STAGING to LIVE. I closed it as too broad because I couldn't find any of the decent target question for closing as dup.
As ...
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Call to action: Flag any answer that is not an answer
There are many answers that don't really answer the question being asked, such as the following one, but you can easily find other when you look at the first posts in the review page, or in the low ...
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Please review close votes!
There are currently 261 questions waiting for review, as far as I could tell. Maybe my guess is off a little, but it seems consistent with 270 on the orange bar.
There are many of us who can vote! ...
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New Close Reason
The moderators recently added a new close reason to the Off-Topic list:
This question was caused by a problem that can no longer be reproduced
or a simple typographical error. While similar ...
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Call to action: Review and Vote to Close and/or Edit
A few months ago, the diamond moderators made a decision (citation needed) to back off a little bit on unilaterally closing questions. We did this to
Encourage community moderation
To not impose our ...
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Should Drupal Commerce questions be tagged 7?
Based on @Clive's comment here, I'd like to know more about how we're supposed to be tagging Commerce-related questions. My initial thought was that since Commerce is only for D7 and is not a ...
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Watch out for bad edits!
Recently I see a lot of bad edits, and worse, I see them accepted. Examples are:
placing code in bold marks, instead of code marks
placing module names in code marks
Formatting lists as code blocks
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A piping-hot bowl of new Moderator Pro Tempore
Throughout the beta, we need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we select a few members from each community ...
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Call to action: Fight spam
From time in time, Drupal Answers gets a bunch of spam posts; sometimes the posts are just one to two in a week, and sometimes there is more spam in a single day.
We have the way to fight that by ...
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Pantheon is now sponsoring Drupal Answers: Sorry there wasn’t a heads up
As you may have noticed Pantheon is now sponsoring Drupal Answers. We failed to give the prior heads-up that we typically do when a sponsorship is about to launch.
We do have a process internally ...
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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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Do not consider field, field-formatter and entity-reference tags as a synonym of entities
I recently noticed that tags field, field-formatter, and entity-reference have recently all been marked as a synonym of the entity tag.
To the extend it is needed, here are my 2 cents about how I ...
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Winter/Summer Bash 2022
It's that time of year again: On December 15, 2022, Winter/Summer Bash will start.
Last year, we participated and enjoyed it. Hopefully, this year will be as fun as the previous years.
For those that ...
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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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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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Please edit to salvage link-only answers instead of voting to delete them
From time to time, when I go through the "Low quality posts" review queue, I come across link-only answers that has accumulated multiple "Recommend Deletion" votes.
An example from today is the ...
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Sponsorship of drupalcon
Listening to the SE podcast it was mentioned that SE would potentially sponsor conferences to help promote SE sites.
Would it be a great help to raise awareness of this site if they were to sponsor ...
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What can be done to make Drupal Answers more useful to Drupal 8 users?
Drupal Answers is a great resource, but a lot of the archive is not relevant to Drupal 8.
Searching for answers is troublesome, because much of the content is applies to earlier versions of Drupal ...
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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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Do we want to unpin the accepted answer from the top?
Stack Exchange recently changed the way answers are sorted on Stack Overflow, meaning that accepting an answer no longer pins it to the top (regardless of sorting method). It still has the green check-...
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Feedback on “Providing support via text forums” task (and related pages) on drupal.org's Contributor Guide
As part of the Getting Involved Guide refresh project on drupal.org, we created a “Support” contribution area section and moved a couple of tasks (Provide support on IRC and Provide support on the ...
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Do we need a "decoupled" tag?
Several times already there where questions dealing with the REST API or the JSON:API I found to be good candidates to be tagged decoupled. But we don't have a tag for that by now, or do we?
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Is it appropriate to ask about DrupalCon in the context of Community involvement?
The question "What is the company that will organize DrupalCon Europe 2019?" was voted down and then put on hold.
Upon revisiting the existing guidelines, it seems that the question is valid....
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New topbar - do you want colours to meet the rest of a page?
With Stylish plugin for FireFox and for Chrome, you can turn that generic black into Drupal blue. Here is the code:
@-moz-document domain("drupal.stackexchange.com") {
.topbar {
background-...
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Where will Drupal Answers be on November 5th?
Drupal Answers is sponsoring Drupal Camp Indy!
The Indianapolis Drupal Camp will be held at the IUPUI Campus Center November 5th, 2011. Drupal Answers is sponsoring lunch for the conference, and I'...
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Is the "developing" tag really necessary?
Is developing really necessary? Is it helpful at all?
I can understand that using developing together modules would make clear that the question is not about which module to use to accomplish a ...
apadernoMod
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Whatever happened to this off-topic option?
Questions asking to recommend or find a book, tool, module, theme,
distribution, tutorial, or other off-site resource are off-topic for
Drupal Answers as they tend to attract opinionated answers ...
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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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Missing 'field' or 'entity' and/or their related API tags
How is it there are now no tags for things like 'field' or 'entity' and/or their related APIs? Some of the questions I am trying to post lately are directly related to them, but I can only enter one ...
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Write wiki pages for empty tags to clarify their intention for new and existing users
This question arose in There is no Tags term MENU or MENUS in DA?. The situation is that a lot of tags are vague, wrongly used or created even though there are already alternative tags available.
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I simply dont Understand how more specific can one be?
In this Question how-to-get-the-form-id-in-drupal-8-with-hook-form-alter all she asked was while placing the hook in a .module file the dpm for fetching $form_id(obvious from the code) is not getting ...
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Improve the quality of reviews?
While discovering my bugreport: Less privileged users can see reviews of other users I've found a quite some posts getting marked as OK while they were actually a question posted as an answer (or ...
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Screen turned when writing answer
When I was writing this: https://drupal.stackexchange.com/a/98150/16495 just after I wrote "Turns" Drupal Answers turned 90 degrees clockwise. I regret I forgot to take a screenshot :(
Is this some ...
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Do we want a Drupal Answers blog?
I just stumbled across this...all StackExchange communities are now able to run their own community blog, an effort dubbed Blog Overflow.
Just throwing this out there...do we want one? Would there be ...
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Middle Sidebar Advertising
As you all know, advertising is an important source of revenue for Stack Overflow and it helps us support all the sites across the Stack Exchange Network and the resources that go into maintaining and ...
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Add a view-modes tag
Add a view-modes tag, there are lots of questions about the subject. Here are the guidelines for new tags:
Most common tags already exist on a mature site. You should always
favor existing tags; ...
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Why was my spam flag declined here?
I flagged this post as spam because:
it is plagiarized from here and has a spam link (totally unrelated both to the question and to the answer itself) at the end (typical technique spammers use).
the ...
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Is this question too similar to another to ask? How should I handle a situation like this?
I asked this question: How to check if an entity bundle has a field?, but soon realized there was another very similar question: Get all fields defined in a bundle. I ended up answering my own ...
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Unable to set drupal_set_message() after logout redirect marked wrong and no fix available
The question "Unable to set drupal_set_message() after logout redirect" got marked as a duplicate of a Drupal 7 issue, while this question is for Drupal 8.
I do not have enough rep points to do ...
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Can I sort 'Unanswered/my tags' tab by date (descending)?
The Unanswered questions/my tags page is where I go if I want to find questions related to my interests and abilities. There is a higher probability that I might be able to answer these questions than ...
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Review notification
Yesterday i have seen a new menu in top bar section of my profile named as review. I conclude that it is due completing 500 reputation.
Today when i have clicked on review menu i have seen 1 post ...
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Can't able to review Flagged Posts in Low Quality Posts
I found this POST under Low Quality Posts. But I couldn't able to review the post .
When I click on Recommended Close button I got a popup like the following. but there are no radio buttons to select ...
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What happened to the previous users badge?
I earned the Marshal badge recently and then I noticed it awarded to only 1 time, I,m sure this badge is already earned by few users. What happened to the previous users badge ?
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Internationalization and i18n - are separate tags really needed?
According to Wikipedia "i18n" is nothing but abbreviation of "internationalization". However, on this site i18n is tag about a module, and internationalization is without description altogether.
I ...
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New post - Viewed 2 times
I have this question that's been puzzling me :)
When I create a new post, and I submit it, it redirects me to the post, and It says (obviously) that the question has been viewed 1 time (by me i guess)...
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Is the list of the questions to ask/not to ask in the new about page sufficient?
The about page has been changed, and it contains three parts that moderators can edit. Two of those sections are about the questions to ask, and the questions not to ask, which currently contain the ...
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What should the description for the "arguments" tag be?
arguments doesn't have a description, and the tag could be used for different purposes (e.g. function arguments). To avoid this, the tag should have a description.
What should its description be?
If ...
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What Drupal-specific solution resources are there on the web? Does DSE have/need this?
I just recently discovered Drupal Bin. Personally, I can't find anything on the site with a search, and yet I know I will find it useful later when I graduate from Views/CCK/Panels stage of Drupal ...
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