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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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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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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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Differences between "updates," "upgrade," and "version-upgrade"
The upgrade documentation at https://drupal.org/upgrade states that an upgrade consists of changing the major version while an update is changing the minor version of Drupal.
Excerpt:
What's the ...
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Shouldn't there be an HTML5 tag?
Apparently HTML5 isn't a tag. Should it be created?
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Burninate "Custom" tag
There already was a request to Burninate the "custom-module" tag and now I see it's rebirth as custom.
custom-module doesn't have any meaning because:
A question tagged custom-module would ...
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Please exclude version tags from title bar
I mean questions like this - there is nothing wrong with it being tagged 7, but this isn't great:
The same will appear in Google results etc. I believe commerce would be more relevant for this ...
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How to deal with versions
Due to the way Drupal 8+ operates, the vast majority of 8 applies just as well to Drupal 9 and Drupal 10 too but this might not be evident for newcomers. What do do here?
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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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Help Save the DVT!
Drupal Version Tags (= DVT ) are the tags such as 6, 7, 8. If you haven't heard about the guidance from the moderators about using Drupal version tags in questions, read what's written in the ...
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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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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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Where can I ask a question about finding modules that meet certain requirements?
I have a list of requirements for a module, but I don't know which modules meet these criteria.
Is this question appropriate on Drupal Answers? Where should I ask about it?
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Links to drupalcontrib.org are no longer working
The site drupalcontrib.org, used in almost 800 posts (and 70 posts on Stack Overflow) is now used for selling steroids in the United Kingdom. From a quick search, it looks like some (but not all) of ...
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Why a concise question to understand what Drupal programmers aimed to do, per formal literature, is rejected?
Last week, I tried to publish the following question.
What is Drupal designated for, for PHP (Drupal) programmers according to Drupal Association and/or Acquia?
Drupal is the most functional/capable/...
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Is it possible to delete a user profile only on the meta site?
Can users delete their user profile on a meta site and keep it on the parent site?
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Should the policy on not asking module recommendations be re-evaluated?
In the page - https://drupal.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic
There is a policy on asking recommendations on modules
Questions asking for recommendations or suggestions on hosting, tools,
modules, ...
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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 we have "Canonical questions", on DA?
I noticed recently that Why is Linux reporting “free” memory strangely? is marked as a Canonical question.
CQs seem like an excellent idea, but my digging around on the serverfault and stackoverflow ...
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Do we want to lower the close vote threshold?
Stack Overflow now has a 3 close vote threshold
We’re lowering the close/reopen vote threshold on Stack Overflow from 5 to 3.
Shog9 then made this comment
Other sites can have whatever ...
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Expand the content of the "How to Ask" block
The content of the How to Ask block that is currently shown is the following one:
Is your question about the Drupal CMS?
We prefer questions that can be answered, not just discussed.
Remember to ...
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Burninate the "custom-module" tag
"Custom module" is, in Drupal jargon, a module that is developed for a specific website, and that is not generic enough to be generally used in other sites. An example of custom module is the Drupal....
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Is there a way to automatically ignore other user?
Let's assume there is one user. His posts makes moderators disagree in comments. He sometimes edit his questions so that original meaning is totally lost, and so on.
I don't want put myself between ...
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Winter Bash 2021 [duplicate]
It's that time of year again: On December 15, 2021, Winter Bash will start.
Last year, we participated and enjoyed it. Hopefully, this will be as fun as the previous years.
For those that don't ...
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Winter Bash 2013 [duplicate]
It's that time of year again. Last year, we participated in Winter Bash 2012.
For those that don't remember, users earned "hats" for their gravatars by completing certain tasks (analogous to badges)....
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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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Winter Bash 2015 [duplicate]
It's that time of year again. Last year, we participated in Winter Bash 2014. Hopefully, by adding this sentence, I can make this different enough to trick the system to not detect it as an exact ...
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Winter Bash 2016 [duplicate]
It's that time of year again. Last year, we participated in Winter Bash 2015. This is not a duplicate yet. Each year we have gauge interest. Once the event is over, we will close it as a duplicate....
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Winter Bash 2017 [duplicate]
It's that time of year again. Last year, we participated and enjoy most. Hopefully, There are more fun this year.
For those that don't remember, users earned "hats" for their gravatars by completing ...
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Winter Bash 2018 [duplicate]
It's that time of year again. Last year, we participated and enjoyed it. Hopefully, this will be as fun as previous years.
For those that don't remember, users earned "hats" for their gravatars by ...
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Winter Bash 2019 [duplicate]
It's that time of year again. Last year, we participated and enjoyed it. Hopefully, this will be as fun as previous years.
For those that don't remember, users earned "hats" for their gravatars by ...
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Winter Bash 2020 [duplicate]
It's that time of year again. Last year, we participated and enjoyed it. Hopefully, this will be as fun as previous years.
For those that don't remember, users earned "hats" for their ...
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When Winter Bash 2021 Start? [duplicate]
When Winter Bash 2021 will start. We are really excited to participate this great fun event.
I love the "hat options" available in this event.
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How can we teach/animate the users to participate more on this site?
The answers to a previous question I asked make it clear that the users who actually read here on meta know what the problems are and how to fight them.
To summarize:
Vote, vote, vote! (A question ...
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What is the anatomy of a well formed question?
I've been ruminating on what is a 'good question' and I'm not yet totally convinced that Optimizing For Pearls, Not Sand neatly answers the question. I don't think a question being interesting defines ...
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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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How should we use the Tag Info wikis?
kiamlaluno and I began a discussion in a question that I think merits more consideration here. I have recently begun placing some basic information in the tag information field such as links or ...
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Can I use the code I found in a question for my Drupal site?
Can I use the code shown in the answer for How can I add a CSS class to the body tag based on the current path alias? in a Drupal site?
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Can I add my question to an existing question?
I am having difficulties following some steps of an answer to an existing question. Can I add my question to an existing question? If not, how can I get clarifications.
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Why was my edit rejected again?
I'd like to know why my original edit was rejected again, even though I asked to give some time to the user who posted it to review it.
Was there anything "factually wrong" in my edit?
It ...
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Should we accept Drupal DevOPs questions?
Generally, nowadays, it seems that Drupal dev-ops is an important topic.
I think that, since Drupal dev-ops becomes such useful and save so much time, we should accept questions about Drupal dev-ops.
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Badge not awarded
I have 5 different questions with a positive score. When I look at the page that lists the badges I haven't not yet received, the Curious badge is listed, even though I have 5 questions with positive ...
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Difference in moderation results
The moderation results for 2019 has just been published on 2019: a year in moderation.
Comparing the data for this year with the data for last year, the difference is the following.
Users suspended²: ...
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What’s the reason for closing the Community Promotion Ads posted for the previous years?
Many of Community Promotion Ads posts created in the past years have been closed as duplicates.
Why is this done?
Does closing the Community Promotion Ads posts as duplicate help the search engines to ...
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Is deleting a user profile to restore the reputation bad?
I asked two questions which got heavily down-voted and closed. I lost some of the initial reputation I had.
I could delete the user profile and recreate it. In this way, the reputation would be back ...
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Does flagging a post as spam automatically down-votes it?
I flagged some posts from the same user as spam, and I have noticed that all those posts have been down-voted.
Is that an automatic down-voted caused by flagging the posts as spam? If this is the ...
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What should I do when I see spam posts?
I found a post that I consider merely spam.
What should I do? Should I down-vote the spam, remove the spam link, or post a question on the meta site to ask them to delete the spam?
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Are questions about drupal's git/forking mechanism on topic?
I posted a question about how to fork projects on drupal which has a vote-to-close on it, and now I'm wondering whether it's on topic.
I actually checked the guidelines before posting it and convinced ...
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3-vote close - how's it going?
Part of understanding the impact of three-vote closure is to understand what impact it's having on y'all. I'd like to ask anyone who feels up to it to write an answer to this question and to tell us ...
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Do we want a gutenberg tag?
Just found a few questions being tagged gutenberg an hour ago. Not sure if this is needed as it also sounds a bit off-topic to me.
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