Questions tagged [discussion]
If it's not a bug, feature-request or request for assistance, it is probably a discussion.
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Community Promotion Ads - 2015 [duplicate]
The dawn of a new year, 2015, now approaches, or has already approached, either way it means that it is now time to reset our Community Promotion Ads!
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community ...
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Can anyone explain why Drupal Answers attracts more spam than any other SE site? [closed]
I am dying to know it. Maybe something in its name or logo...
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Why is information that narrows it down deliberately removed from a question closed as "too broad"?
This question recently was closed as "too broad": https://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/138290/homepage-is-loading-very-slow-while-internal-pages-are-faster.
As it was originally written, it was ...
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Winter Bash 2014 [duplicate]
It's that time of year again. Last year, we participated in Winter Bash 2013.
For those that don't remember, users earned "hats" for their gravatars by completing certain tasks (analogous to badges)....
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Is it ok to ask how a particular module works?
If people have a question about setting up, or using a particular module. Does this seem like it would be a valid question for the site?
I.E;
How do you use Drupal Views?
How do you set up Drupal ...
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How to get rid of all these CiviCRM questions?
Yes, CiviCRM is technically a Drupal module, but it's also a standalone application with its own community of users (who have some overlap with the Drupal community, but also WP and Joomla folks).
So ...
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What should be done if user edit their POSTs with junk data
Consider the recent questions asked by this user. example this POST. The user is editing their own posts with junk data (testtest).
So what should be done to this user and POSTS?
Can I rollback ...
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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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What to do with chat?
Chatroom was frozen. Attempts to revive it failed. Do we need it? What do do with it? Why wasn't you there?
My main reasons was:
No one there, usually.
Drupal Association News I was not interested ...
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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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Some scenarios during edit of a question
During edit some question I am facing this type of situation:
After approving the edited question by the user I have seen the edited by user is someone else, but the changes is the same as what I ...
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Getting this restriction during provide comments?
I am getting the below restriction when i am commenting a question.
It show me the message for chat option. But if the user having less reputation he is unable to do the chat.Is there any ...
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Does DA deletes SPAM POSTS permanently?
Under my flag summary when I mouse over on SPAM POSTS I see the 'POST content' as tooltip.
My question is Does DA permanently deletes the SPAM? or it keeps only trimmed data of the SPAM for tooltip?
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Do we want specific hash tags for automatic Tweets
The SE Twitter Bot will send out an tweet from @StackDrupal every few hours based on a magic algorithm.
Right now, the tweet will get the hashtag for the most popular tag on the post. Very often, it ...
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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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Tag suggestion for exception or error
Should we have separate tag for exception or error which could indicate the posts dealing with the errors? Which can ask how to deal with or debug specific exceptions/errors?
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appropriate action for low quality questions
Whats an appropriate flag for this type of unconstructive question?
I will love to have in D7 the NavBar Menu whenever I'm on my phone but
whenever I'm at my desktop I will love to have Admin ...
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Should we have a "site-building-only" tag?
There are some people (like me) who would rather not write any custom code and use contributed modules instead to solve a particular problem at hand. The repository is vast and many modules like Views,...
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Multiple users edit a single question and get +2 reputation each is it generic?
Bad formatted question edited by multiple user and each user get +2 reputation is it generic?
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Can somebody upvote of its own question/answer?
When someone upvote his own question/answer is there any change occurs to its reputation?
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Problem with create Bounty?
I know this is not a drupal.stackexchange question, but I do have a question on which I am trying to grant bounty. I have 50+ Rep so I want to create a bounty for that question:
Fuzzy Search in ...
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Looking for a way to tag issues created by a certain community
First, I just want to say I'm really impressed with the user community at drupal.stackexchange.com, and I had a follow-on question to the many posts about creating tags.
I chair a Drupal group (http:...
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Why do a lot of people seem to "answer" a question in the comments section?
I'm fairly new to participating here (though I've been referring to Drupal Answers for a while now for Drupal help), so forgive me if the reason is pretty obvious and I just haven't picked up on it ...
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What to do when there is no answer for a bountied question?
Recently I put a bounty on this question at max bounty:
How can I remove items from the allowed values list of a select field that has data for the values?
There seems to be a consensus as to a ...
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Do I close a question when it turns out there is no answer? [duplicate]
I asked this question How does Feed import get a list of the CSV fields to map to content type fields? and it turns out that Feeds CSV import doesn't support what I want although Feeds SQL import does?...
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"answer suggested by author" status for questions
I have asked several questions that went unanswered for so long, I eventually discovered the answer through trial and error. I don't really want to answer my own question because doing so does not ...
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Tags "Notifications", "Subscriptions" and "Messaging"
Drupal has three contributed notifications/subscriptions/messaging frameworks that are known respectively as Notifications, Subscriptions and Messaging
Some time ago, tags were created for all three ...
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If I have created a new tag, will I be the moderator for that tag
As mentioned here, I understand that anyone having points more than 1500 can create a new tag. My question is If I have created a new tag, will I be the moderator for that tag or who will be handling ...
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Why is there no AKAMAI tag in Here
I am just wondering why don't we have any akamai tag in https://drupal.stackexchange.com/ . It is better if we have tag akamai in https://drupal.stackexchange.com/ for better convenience of everyone.
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Is it valid to post answers from other user's comments?
For some posts, the answer might be very short or a single line answer. so sometimes users post them in comments instead of as answer.
For example,
Have a look at this Question. Bala left a comment ...
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User answer a question but ask another question in the answer. What to do in those cases?
I have recently review a user which answer a late question. However, he answer but he ask another question in his answer. Are there any guidelines about how to treat those cases?
Thank you
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Can user share his contact information on Stack Exchange?
Recently i came across this question where OP is unable to resolve his issue related to migration of view. It seems off topic for me.
He offered bounty of 20$ and asked to share contact information ...
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Unknown tag: user-reference
I was just looking at this question that is tagged with the user-reference tag.
I'm not sure what this tag means. It doesn't seem to relate to any module and doesn't have a description.
Should it ...
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Should bugs in answers be corrected by editing?
I believe that there is agreement that bugs in the code posted in questions should never be corrected by editing by anyone except the OP (and that even edits by the OP should be rejected if fixing the ...
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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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What's wrong with this question?
This question:
https://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/109747/webforms-colorbox-not-working-seriously-nothing-happens
How can I ask this question in a way it does make sense? Since I wrote what I ...
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Effects of unicorn - visible to me or everyone?
There is an option to adopt a tag. Nice joke, all right, but I wonder if we can see what each other buy? Or is it a kind of playing with yourself? :D
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Do we still want server administration questions?
The Help Center currently has this section about on-topic posts:
Server administration/deployment
Lately, we have been closing many/most of these as off-topic. Then one of the moderators ...
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Anonymous user edit the answer
I have found answer of one post in which an answer was edited by anonymous user and the post was totally changed.
I think, there should not be edit access to anonymous user.
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How to deal with Users who are misguiding Question Poster with wrong answers using comments?
I have come across some users who are posting comments which will lead to multiple issues. For Example in this Question there is a comment which suggests to delete some modules if site has issue with ...
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Why is the reason given by me when voting to close misrepresented?
Take a look at the closure notice below the question: https://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/106093/how-to-create-an-image-gallery-album-like-facebook
It says: "marked as duplicate by ..., Gisle ...
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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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Not able to properly align the code within code block
I tried to put the code inside the code block in this question, but I failed and not able to do that, meaning it not rendering properly. Is that because of that code or what ?
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IS it okay to link to books you have to buy in an answer?
I just left an answer here that suggest the use of a book that you should (although there are other ways to get a copy) buy.
Is it okay to point people to solutions that are commercial? Especially as ...
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Is there a way to retrieve the revision history of your question?
I asked a sub question in a main question that I want to ask separately, but have forgotten the exact phrasing after forgetting to paste it for safety when I cut it out.
Is there a way of retrieving ...
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Do we need a new diamond moderator?
Recently election on Stack Overflow was completed, do we need the same here. I think we need so, I'm member for more than one year in DA and I seen very few activity from one diamond here, I think we ...
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What is the options for reporting down votes which appear to be tit for tat or malicious?
I downvoted an answer which was not correct (I checked it and found a correct answer) and came to find out that the question itself had been downvoted.
What is the options for reporting down votes ...
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What happens when someone apparently gives meaningless or false answers which get voted up?
What happens when someone apparently gives meaningless or false answers which get voted up - especially when it looks like they are seeking extra points?
Is there a way to report such apparent ...
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Is there a point in closing very old questions with an upvoted and accepted answer?
Take a look at this old question: "how to put permission to only paid users can print something in my drupal site".
It is from April last year, and has an accepted answer with four upvotes. It was ...
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