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Community Promotion Ads — 2019 [duplicate]
2019 is here! And with the new year, as usual, comes a new iteration of Community Promotion Ads! Let’s refresh these for the coming year :)
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion Ads ...
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Is there a sidechain token that would be suitable for use as a reward system for greater engagement with the Ethereum Stack Exchange?
A layer for microtransactions for tracking and rewarding a broader set of activity than the standard StackExchange badges/reputation could help accelerate participation. Which existing sidechains/...
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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 to handle compliments?
Since I joined the community few months ago, I see a lot of questions where the OP is using a language full of gratitude and thanks in advance to the degree that the desperation is almost cringing. ...
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web3js questions
I always a bit in doubt when I see questions with web3js code. I start each question from analyzing version of web3js. There are lots of differences between 0.x and 1.x. It takes time to check it. I ...
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Can you please rename the zeppelin tags?
I'd like to request two tag renames:
zeppelin -> openzeppelin
zeppelin-os -> zeppelinos
I want to add some common questions that we are getting in our channels to make them permanent and more easy ...
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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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Is our site configured correctly for users to create new tags?
New tags seem to be created by users without 1500 rep. Here is example1, example2 and another.
Is our site configured correctly? How can our site be configured like Stack Overflow requiring 1500 ...
ethMod
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How should we handle questions which are potentially malicious in nature?
Ethereum probably has as many interested developers as it does people interested in ways to make a quick buck off of potential victims.
There have been a number of questions I have witnessed, which ...
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Please enable syntax highlighting for ethereum.stackexchange.com
Can StackExchange admins fix configuration for this site to enable syntax highlighting on https://ethereum.stackexchange.com ?
EDIT: This is not a duplicate for How do I turn on python syntax ...
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How migrations to other stack exchange sites happen, Only Option is Ethereum Meta?
I have seen questions being migrated to other different stack exchange sites. How does this process happen?
I have seen questions asking help for JavaScript related issues in this site that can be ...
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What would be a valid 'Opinion-based' question? Are there any guidelines
My first exposure to this SE was through this question. I wouldn't have it any other way and it is still clearly opinion based.
Here there is a question that has been pointed out for being opinion ...
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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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Is Ethereum Stack Exchange a Q&A for Enterprise-Based/Fork versions of Ethereum as well?
Is Ethereum Stack Exchange a Q&A/Forum for Enterprise-Based/Fork versions of Ethereum as well?
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Why doesn't Ethereum Stack Exchange have an Ethereum icon?
Just a detail but it would definitely look good and differentiate from the generic initials bubble for stackexchange boards.
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Why there are no Triage and Help & Improvement queues?
In stackoverflow there are two other additional review queues;
Triage
Help and Improvement
Why those queues are not in this community? Because low traffic compared to Stackoverflow and all of them ...
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How to handle transaction tracing requests?
There are a fair number of questions like this one where the poster wonder about what happened as a result of a fairly typical transaction. They're somewhat related to How to deal with generic ...
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How many comments is too many?
I'm in an answer where there's quite a lot of commenting going on and we've reached a point where we're discussing topics quite different from the original question.
I'm just wondering if I should ...
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Can someone undelete my question?
I deleted it because I couldn't reproduce the error so I assume I fixed it but I'm having the error again.
I can't even find the link to my question (it was about out-of-gas and MetaMask)
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About how sorting answers based on votes works
When the answers to a question are sorted by number of votes, I see that the accepted answer appears on the top, even though another answer has more votes. Is there a reason for it to work like this. ...
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Which questions should have tag grammar?
Which questions should be asked under a tag grammar?
Should those questions be only about formal grammar of programming languages (which are used in EVM for smart contracts for example) or should ...
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Why low quality posts queue option in the review queues drop-down has a red dot even the queue is cleared?
Most of the time I have seen the low quality posts in the review queues drop-down has a red dot left to it, probably indicating the queue is needed to be cleared urgently. But when I go to the review ...
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What's with the lack of voting?
I only joined the site 11 days ago; despite spending a lot of time reading StackOverflow and various other StackExchange sites in the past I haven't felt like I've had much to add elsewhere but as I'm ...
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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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Are support question about EtherDelta on topic?
Most exchanges question fall into the third party support: How to flag 3rd-party support questions?
But EtherDelta is a third party, but like other decentralized exchanges the contract's source is ...
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How to deal with potential scams?
This is inspired by @RichardHorrocks' comment regarding a post offering to help recover private keys by running a script (not provided) by sending an e-mail to the poster (who also happens to be a new ...
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Addition to explicit list of items in help centre for legal information?
A legal question pops up about once every two weeks which, from my understanding of the modus operandi of the Ethereum stack exchange, is out-of-scope. In the Help Center, legal questions are not ...
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Are questions about Hyperledger Fabric on-topic?
Should questions that are specifically confined to the workings of Hyperledger Fabric be on topic?
Context:
https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/32223/does-hyperledger-fabric-support-jason-...
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Suggestion for auto-highlighting syntax, by tag
It was suggested that I make a post proposing syntax highlighting by tag.
This is based on a quick scan of tags by popularity. So the list is surely incomplete, but hopefully a good starting point.
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Does a downvote subtract 1 from the reputation of the downvoter?
Yesterday, I downvoted an answer that I thought was wrong, and also added a comment that it was I who downvoted and why. Today, I see that I have a -1 in my reputation because of the downvote. Is it ...
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How do I turn on python syntax highlighting?
Even when I specifically add a code language hint for python, code highlighting does not seem to trigger. See: https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/a/31010/1461
I added this, plus a newline between it ...
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Ability to save unfinished post for later
To the Moderators:
Please create the ability to save unfinished posts for finishing up later on. It is difficult to get a detailed answer in a single sitting. I am writing a community wiki atm and ...
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Strange requirements for 3 Answer Badges
I just noticed the requirements for the following 3 Answer Badges:
Explainer: Edit and answer 1 question (both actions within 12 hours, answer score > 0) 67 awarded
Refiner:
Edit and answer 50 ...
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Ethereum Stack Exchange is blacklisted
It looks like Ethereum Stack Exchange was recently blacklisted. I'm using a VPN with malware-blocking. Today I suddenly get this:
I am able to circumvent this by clicking visit the site anyway but ...
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Where did the link to meta go?
I just came here to ask a question, but I can not figure out how to find the way to meta without manually entering the URL in my browser. Where do I have to click?
Usually, I clicked on the Stack ...
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What do do with answers that have pre web3 v1.0 code?
What do do with answers that have pre web3 v1.0 code?
This has come up in one answer and will come up in others.
e.g. see How do I know when I've run out of gas programmatically?
There are lots ...
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Should the “gas-limit” tag be changed?
The "gas-limit" tag refers to transaction gas limit, right? But "gasLimit" in the chain spec file and genesis file refer to BLOCK gas limit, right?
I can't get a straight answer on that but if that ...
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Original Question being marked as the duplicate
May be this is not really a big issue. But it took my attention because it was done by a moderator of the site.
My question is what can we do, if a the original question is marked as a duplicate of ...
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Are Truebit questions on-topic here?
Are questions about Truebit on-topic and appropriate here?
Truebit is a recent proposal for building smart contracts on top of Ethereum. Truebit allows outsourcing complex computations to untrusted ...
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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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What should I do when someone down votes my answer?
I answered a question well, but I didn't really answer the question that was asked, so the question asker (I presume) downvoted my answer.
Totally understand why that happened, and it should have ...
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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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"Do it for me" - How to deal with open ended questions?
I have noted over the past few weeks that a large number of questions are very open ended.
The submitter has clearly done little/no research and is simply requesting that someone else builds their ...
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Multiple questions in same post
From time to time, I stumble upon single post on ESE containing many questions which might be related or not like this one : Help needed understanding ERC20 smart contract functions and workflow
In ...
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Creation of a new close-question reason/flag for "verify this work"?
I don't know if new reasons for closing questions or raising flags can be added, but I was wondering how the community feels about questions such as Is this a satifactory crowdsale contract? . I think ...
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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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2017 Community Moderator Election Results
Ethereum's 1st moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the 3 new moderators are:
Both Tjaden Hess and Badr Bellaj will be be replacing the pro tempore moderators ...
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Should we merge Meteor and Meteorjs tags?
I noticed recently that there are tags for Meteor and Meteorjs and it seems they refer to the same thing. Should we merge them? And if so, how is that done, and how many reputation points are required ...
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Does Ethereum Meta SE recommend or suggest where to ask philosophical questions?
I searched for an answer to this question here on Ethereum Meta SE but did not find any. Are there any recommended sites for philosophical questions about Ethereum? I have such a question that I would ...
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What to do with the questions of the new users who don't use the searcher?
I'm every day here looking for new questions, and trying to learn more about Ethereum and the blockchain, but since 2 months ago i only see the same qeustions of a new users like
"how many time ...
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