Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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Good Tags now save a lot of work later!
Since you are just setting out with this SE you might appreciate to hear about my learning experience: I've been a moderator on Bitcoin.SE for almost two years now, and I have spent a lot of time on ...
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What is really on-topic for Ethereum Stack Exchange?
Edit, due to the low meta activity: Everyone involved with this site, please take the five minutes and fill out the form at the bottom of this post and state what you consider on- or off-topic.
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Vote early, vote often!
A big shout out to all of us for a successful graduation into private beta.
Let's make it a success now, and make sure we graduate into a full-fledged site.
So, this is one post which every user of ...
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Please change our site's topic!
This question is a follow up of: What’s the “elevator pitch” for our site? -- And very important. It's about the $Topic of our communty, which is the most basic explaination what Ethereum Stack ...
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Moderator Pro Tem Announcement
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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Google/Code-Prettify: Who can create syntax highlighting for solidity, serpent, and ...?
It would be nice to use syntax highlighting on Ethereum Stack Exchange for our questions and answers. Stack Exchange uses google/code-prettify.
For the development question regarding decentralized ...
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What’s the “elevator pitch” for our site?
The tour page states the scope of our site as following:
Ethereum Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for users of Ethereum, the crypto value and blockchain-based consensus network. It's ...
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Congratulations! Ethereum is graduating!
You've been cleared for graduation by the Stack Exchange Community Team! Ethereum met our threshold for graduation-worthy sites and after a review, the Community Team determined that you're good to go....
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Site design and logo — Draft
I’m Piper, Director of Product Design for our Community Products org and the designer working on the Ethereum Stack Exchange theme. I’ve spent some time reviewing your thoughts from our first post and ...
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Custom Ethereum design and logo - Information gathering
Congratulations Ethereum community! We’re going to be creating a custom site design for you that we hope will represent your subject and we want you all to really love it. You’ve been waiting almost 5 ...
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Should we get questions from Reddit and the forums?
There are probably some questions on Reddit and the forums that have been asked more than once, and that have specific answers. Is it good protocol to go and get those, and the good answers and put ...
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Are questions on specific DAPPs on or off topic?
Sooner or later people will ask questions on specific DAPPs. I guess we need to make a decisions whether or not this os on or off topic.
We also might come to a middle ground where some canonical ...
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Should we discourage questions about exchanges, trading, buying?
On some days, Ethereum Stack Exchange feels like a help desk, and it's a lot of work to forward people to the correct peers.
Should we discourage questions about exchanges, trading, buying?
... How? :...
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Frequently used comments
Do you have any suggestions for comment templates that you frequently use to educate (new) users? The close modal has a couple, but I think there is room for more guidance before actually closing a ...
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Ethereum Stack Exchange Summer Challenge 2016
I'm willing to put up a bounty to any user in here to earn the Convention silver badge until end of July of 2016. This is a reward for participating in our site's meta. Currently only eth, murch and ...
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Should we rename the tag smartcontract to smart-contracts?
As follow-up of this question, should we rename the tag smartcontract to smart-contracts?
It's two words and should be seperated by a dash.
It should be plural, like contracts.
It should be a synonym ...
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Are Ether price questions allowed?
This hasn't really come up, but where do we draw the line about price discussion? For example, this post asks about the value of ether after the POS switch. This is not simply a "what will the price ...
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Should we dissolve the smart-contracts tag?
We have:
contract-design
contract-development
contract-debugging
contract-invocation
Do we still need a smart-contracts tag? (Y/n)
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What should our documentation contain?
As a follow-up on: What’s the “elevator pitch” for our site?
What should our documentation contain? What is our site about and what not?
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New site design launched
As you can see, the new design just went live! At this point, we are done with major revisions to the design (although you can still report CSS/styling bugs by starting a new post and tagging it with ...
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FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions and Reference Answers
Inspired by this, here is a list of frequently asked questions grouped by topic:
Here are some provisional categories:
What is Ethereum
Getting Started
Mining (Proof of Work)
Proof of Stake
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Let's improve our top-tag wikis and usage guidance for new users
I just went through our top-tag wikis and see there is not much but still a little bit work to do. If you have time, please lend a hand. One tag a day ...
Priority List
Tags used more than 100 times
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what a downvote means to you?
I always hesitate to downvote a question or an answer that I would flag anyway, mostly because most of the time it comes from new users.
A few months later, I still could deserve some downvotes for ...
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Do we eventually ruthlessly edit questions (and answers)?
I took a look at some Stackoverflow Q&A and noticed the thorough scrubbing that's done. The main thing I notice is the scrubbing for conciseness (after the usual grammar, etc is done). One ...
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We graduated to Public Beta!
Congrats fellas! We have graduated to Public Beta. So, we should be having a greater influx of users. And from now onwards, we will be tracked and our stats would be very important.
So, yaay! Time ...
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On Ethereum Classic usage
After the recent Hardfork not only on a technical level but also on a community level I think Ethereum Classic questions will be well on topic for our Q&A site. (If not, please use this thread to ...
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Encouraging commenting before down voting
I have seen several examples this week of new users' questions getting down-voted without any explanation in the comments, as happened in this case. I find this upsetting, particularly when the ...
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Answer early, answer often!
We currently have 18 questions per day which is excellent regarding the quantity content is generated on our little private beta.
But we now have to transit from quantity to quality. The answer rate ...
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Blog: Simple Storage Patterns in Solidity [closed]
Posted in relation to the blog initiative.
Simple and appropriate data organization can challenge Solidity newcomers. It wants us to organize everything in ways many of us aren’t accustomed to.
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Should I use any Ethereum Wallet listed on your search engine or advertisments?
Spoiler: No!
It comes up once in a while that users wonder why their tokens are missing from their legit-looking wallet they found via search engine.
So here comes my warning: Don't use any Ethereum ...
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Introducing Ethereum Blog Overflow
We’re launching a technical Ethereum community blog – the Ethereum Blog Overflow. We’re starting with setting the focus, scope and audience for the blog. Ideally, this will be completely driven by the ...
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2017 Graduation Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...
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Ethereum StackExchange direction
It's been a short time since I'm here on Ethereum StackExchange, but i have one question about the site.
Personally, I love full detail answers, with a high technical value and explanation, that ...
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Stop blindly closing questions please!
I am really enjoying that there are so many users already with the close-vote casting privilege and actively using the review queue tools to help maintaining this site.
However, while going through ...
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2017 Graduation Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
In tune with its graduation, Ethereum is scheduled for an election next week, July 3rd.In connection with that, we will be holding a Q&A with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for ...
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Let's brain-storm a site-theme for inspirations!!!1
Hello fellow Ethereum Stack-Exchangers!
It will take probably a looong time till we see first proposals for a new site-wide theme for Ethereum Stack Exchange! However, it would be nice if we could ...
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Should crypto-bounties be allowed in questions?
The posting of jobs in this community isn't allowed, but unsolicited tipping, as per Is tipping allowed on the Ethereum StackExchange site? is allowed. An honorarium isn't the same as getting paid to ...
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Who is going to Ethereum DevCon #2 in Shanghai to promote Stack Exchange?
The Ethereum DevCon #2 will be held on Sept 19-21, 2016 in Shanghai, China.
Around 800 Ethereum developers and enthusiasts will be around to discuss newest advances in technology and trends in web 3....
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How to flag 3rd-party support questions?
Often, we see questions like "A 3rd-party site has my funds, help me recover". It could be that the web app screwed up, or maybe the user, or both.
It seems straightforward that these questions ...
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Is tipping allowed on the Ethereum StackExchange site?
I recall that users on bitcointalk and other crypto discussion boards post wallet addresses that people can send tips to. I haven't looked at many profiles here so maybe users are already posting ...
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Community Promotion Ads - 2018 [duplicate]
This site graduated last year, and so as we're rounding out to the end of our first month of the new year, we'll be starting Community Promotion Ads for this site!
What are Community Promotion Ads?
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Vote down or delete low quality content?
Several answers are of very low quality or some only include links.
I often see users are flagging them for beeing low quality. There are basicly three things I can do as a moderator:
leave a ...
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At what point are mining questions off-topic?
As previously referenced in the recent post about closed questions, many questions pertaining to mining are being closed as off topic.
I think that much of the confusion comes from ambiguity in the ...
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Should we blacklist the smart-contracts tag?
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Should we dissolve the smart-contracts tag? Joris did excellent work to burninate the smart-contracts tag:
The tags contract-design, contract-development, contract-invocation
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Community Promotion Ads — 2020 [duplicate]
2020 has come! But… oops, where did the time go? It’s already March! Belated as it is, it’s time for a refresh of Community Promotion Ads!
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion Ads ...
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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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Accounts farming rep using chatGPT
I noticed this on ES, but i assume it's happening on SO too, and on pretty much every other stackexchange forums, but we got accounts generating answers to questions using ChatGPT and copying them ...
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Are questions just about IPFS on-topic?
This question may need improvement
Add file to IPFS using API
but it leads to this meta question of whether IPFS-only questions are on-topic.
Opinions?
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EDCON: A Cryptofriendly Guide To Paris
where is the venue?
EDCON will take place at ESCP Paris the 17th and 18th February but you can come before and hang out with Asseth (see below "Meet blockchain minded people"). The campus ...
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When (if ever) should [solidity] programming questions be considered off-topic and migrated to stackoverflow?
Are all solidity oriented questions on-topic by virtue of being about the programming language that Ethereum uses?
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