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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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Are questions about Ethereum's core development team on-topic?

No, generally speaking, this should be off topic. Stack Exchange was created for collaborative knowledge sharing, and the focus of this site is the subject of Ethereum. Stack Exchange works really w …
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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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How to deal with generic question titles like "why didn't this transaction work..."

The titles on your front page define your site, so a title should always, always best describe what the question is actually about without having to open the thread. If it doesn't, you should edit it; …
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How to deal with non-English questions?

This is an English-language site so questions must be posted in English. If non-English questions are posted, leave a thoughtful comment and close it as unclear what you are asking.
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Is it worth reminding people to consider upvoting questions that they've answered?

I would prefer you didn't. I know folks mean well trying to help users who may not know better, but with so many users and so many posts vying for attention, that sort of prodding becomes noisy pretty …
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Should we migrate questions from Bitcoin SE and Stackoverflow to our site?

Unless those questions are deemed off topic on those other sites, we have no cause to remove content from another site and the reputation/ownership that goes with it. Besides, the wholesale importing …
Robert Cartaino's user avatar
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Introducing Ethereum Blog Overflow

We’re launching a technical Ethereum community blog – the Ethereum Blog Overflow You should know that Stack Exchange is no longer hosting blogs on an internal platform. If you wish to start a blo …
Robert Cartaino's user avatar
5 votes
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Is Augur use on topic for this site?

https://augur.net/ is a trading and betting platform used to predict real-world events using Ethereum. But is the use of Ethereum merely coincidental to this as a stand-alone subject for a new site? …
Robert Cartaino's user avatar
4 votes

Can we just import all the tag-wiki from other SE sites?

The short answer is no. Apart from the technical considerations, tag wiki excerpts were not meant to simply define what a word means. Excerpts should describe when and how that tag is to be used on t …
Robert Cartaino's user avatar
3 votes

Should a guide on mining testnet ether be a community wiki?

As a matter of emerging policy, the Community Wiki setting has been all but deprecated. A user's answer should virtually never be forced to Wiki (to remove reputation or otherwise) unless it is explic …
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How many meta questions should have a 'featured' tag?

Use with great restraint. It's pretty rare that you actually have to 'feature' a post. The system already has processes in place to raise certain meta posts to the main Q&A. The featured tag was inten …
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