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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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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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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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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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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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Burninate the "php" tag
php is used from 153 questions. Considering that Drupal is a PHP CMS, the tag should be burninated. It could be used for many different questions, such as:
Questions about a Drupal function
Questions ...
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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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Code of conduct popup screws up header background
I've noticed when logged out, the code of conduct popup screws up DA's header background.
Closing the popup fixes the issue, but looking at other SE sites, they don't have this popup background issue....
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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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Re-create the "message" tag (or create a "message-stack" tag)
Modules with a dedicated tag
Tags such as views, rules, userpoints, features, quiz, webform, panels, feeds, ... etc are all tags named according to the Drupal module they are about. One could say "...
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Drupal version Tag in Related Sections
In Questions that may already have your answer, and Related sections, if question is tagged with drupal version I think it would be nice to see version tag next to a question.
Related questions are ...
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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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Can we get a better visited color on MDA?
In the theme on Meta Drupal Answers, the color on an anchor is
a { color: #a69635 }
The visited state is
a:visited { color: #6c5f16 }
In body copy inside questions / answers, the color is
body { ...
mpdonadioMod
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Tour link redirect to diffrent page
Tour link redirected to help page instead of tour page in meta help drop down.
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Calling for action: Help improving our tag wikis
Some of our tag wikis need to be improved, and they need the help of the community. Before to describe the task, I will give a description of what a tag wiki is.
Each tag, such as views, has a page ...
apadernoMod
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Edited, but no changes? Why in reopen review queue, if nothing changed?
This looks like a bug to me:
If nothing* changed, why push it to reopen queue?
If something* changed, why not to show it?
This is the question I'm talking about: https://drupal.stackexchange.com/...
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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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How do I proceed if I cannot make sense of the reason to close the question?
I'm new to Drupal, but reasonably experienced with stackoverflow.
I have a very specific question (change font size for displayed code), namely how to change Drupal configuration to achieve a ...
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Please introduce anti-spam restrictions
Due to large amount of SPAM these days (see Lots of question related to weight lose, fatty tissue etc in daily. Is it added intentionally?) I propose to introduce following restrictions for ...
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Drupal account: score and badges not fit in the cell
If you look at your account from Drupal account, you can see the following:
Here is the class of hyperlink that can affect this:
.site-hyperlink {
color: #0077C0 !important;
font-size: 16px !...
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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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Seeing own question and answer bans
Unfortunately, I've received a ban on Drupal Answers, but I cannot remember which ban is in effect. Of course, I could ask and/or answer a question, and find out quickly enough, but I think a page ...
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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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Question Templates
I was a little bit more active on DA since a while. And I observed that it seems necessary to flag quite a large percentage of new questions to be closed as "too broad" or "unclear what you're asking"....
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Missing text beside relative time for Migrated questions?
Seems there's a missing text beside the relative time for migrated questions at Top Questions page.
If anyone does any changes to the post it appears like "modified 5 mins ago".
If someone answers to ...
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History/Reputation Bug
I found some sort of cache bug when browsing previous answers. If I browse to this previous answer then hit back in my browser. It reports my reputation & visited history as if it was 6 days older ...
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Suggested improvement for "activity"
If users want to know their rejected edits, they need to go activity >> suggestions and click on "suggested edit" from the list of their suggested edits.
There is no link/tab provided for rejected ...
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Random squares when I write - what to do?
I guess it can be considered a follow-up for Screen turned when writing answer - now when I write, random squares appear. Their coulor is #042e4e as in background-color:#042e4e; in site's CSS.
This ...
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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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Enable code highlight in quotes by default
This network-wide question shows how to enable syntax highlight in code blocks inside quotes, as it's off by default. But here most of the time we want PHP highlight.
My request is: can Drupal ...
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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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