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Question hijacking after posting a bounty
I recently came across this question, which seemed like it arose from a relatively simple misunderstanding of how Ethereum works. The sole answer seemed to assume a greater degree of understanding ...
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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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How to deal with help-desk questions from pre-sale?
A lot of people participated in the initial coin offering for Ethereum two years before it launched. Today, four years later, people check out their wallets and sometimes have issues with the presale.
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Is a Tax question/wiki appropriate?
Is there any concern about liability if I were to post a wiki-question where we could consolidate sourced guidance on crypto tax policy from around the world?
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What are we doing with questions asking about services?
https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/q/6791/87
Is Ethtrade.org real deal or a scam?
I think it's pretty obvious they are either offtopic promoting services or generating unwanted, opinionated ...
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I closed nine questions regarding TheDAO hack
As a moderator I don't want to intervene too much but today I had to close eight nine questions regarding TheDAO hack. I don't feel very comfortable with this action and therefore I would like to list ...
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Are questions about books and tutorials on-topic?
This question:
Ethereum Tutorial for Beginners
asks for a book and tutorials.
Are that kind of questions on-topic?
In case it is off-topic, can we have appropriate close reason for that kind of ...
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Should we diversify answers on most popular questions?
Most of the questions on our site are usually found using a search engine. It's often good to have multiple answers on one question. 3 answers per question is good, only 1 answer per question needs ...
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How to track the ethereum beta site's performance?
Is there any way for non-moderators to track the ethereum beta site's performance?
For instance the questions per day moving average of the last 14 days? I read 10 questions a day make up a healthy ...
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How do questions per day get calculated?
On the Area51 stats, it says we have a rate of 8.8 questions per day. And the rate is dropping very quickly (was at above 10 some days ago).
I tried to redo the maths: we have 585 questions and the ...
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How to deal with all the Casper questions?
Casper is yet only and idea and there are not many hard facts available out there.
Still, there are so many questions popping up on that topic, casper (15) proof-of-stake (21).
Most of the ...
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Should we migrate questions from Bitcoin SE and Stackoverflow to our site?
There are
50 questions tagged ethereum on stackoverflow.
43 questions tagged ethereum on bitcoin stackexchange.
13 questions tagged smartcontracts on bitcoin stackexchange.
3 questions tagged ...
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How to deal with questions which appear to be bugs?
In the really early state of Ethereum, some questions may turn out to be bugs or based on issues caused by bugs. Like this one.
How to deal with questions which appear to be bug reports? Close? ...
