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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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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I posted a long question. Part of it is Apple-specific; part is not. Should it be kept open, or should it be closed?
On the main site, you can find a post I've written. Let me first summarize it and analyze it, and then ask you about it.
Summary and initial analysis of my post on the main site
YouTube offers a ...
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Should I post, or not post a new question with clarifying information?
I recently posted a question:
User reporting that Push Notification doesn't always show in the notification center
It was closed with the following notice at the top:
Closed. This question ...
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Inconsistent thumbnail generation in Finder?
Ok, just saying, but this site seems a bit broken. The exact question I want to ask has been addressed, but I can't enter that conversation/thread because I don't have 50 reputation points. So ... I ...
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Most Active Contributors Monthly Report - August 2019
Welcome to the 23rd edition of the monthly Ask Different Most Active Contributors Report.
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Report for August 2019
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Could we add a tag for the Procreate App?
Procreate is doing very well, today it was the 37th top US grossing app in the App Store. I would like to receive alerts when a Procreate question comes up, and as far as I can tell will need it to ...
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Should I bounty one of these to get a canonical answer for Catalina era hardware?
There are quite a few versions of “I want an external display, an open clamshell and no display whatsoever” questions:
How to automatically turn black main monitor when external monitor is connected ...
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Are macOS Music.app questions duplicates of iTunes questions?
In macOS 10.15 Catalina, a new dedicated Music.app replaced the venerable iTunes:
What happened to iTunes?
With macOS Catalina, your iTunes media library is now available in the Apple Music ...
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Accidentally submitting comments by tapping the return button on iPad
On numerous occasions, I have posted an unfinished comment by accidentally pressing the return key on my iPad. (I personally think you should have to press the “Add Comment” button on the site to ...
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Synonym reversal for recovery mode tag
I propose we reverse the direction of the tag synonym for recover mode:
With 25 questions, there doesn't seem to be a need to differentiate between macOS and iOS at this point.
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Tag cleanup for app stores
Currently we have synonyms as follows:
There are 1300 questions that will be affected. I propose reversing the order and making appstore a synonym of app-store. I propose making ios-appstore a ...
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Why is there an independent ios-13 tag while ios-11 and ios-12 tags are mapped to the generic ios tag?
Why is there an independent ios-13 tag while ios-11 and ios-12 tags are mapped to the generic ios tag?
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Most Active Contributors Monthly Report - July 2019
Welcome to the 22nd edition of the monthly Ask Different Most Active Contributors Report.
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Report for July 2019
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Unable to ask a question in this forum
I am not able to ask a proper question in this forum.
Can this be fixed please?
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A sincere apology to our community from ex user310476
I, Daniil Manokhin, ex user310476 would like to apologise for both the verbal and physical harm I did to the community.
Why I am apologising
I decided I can’t continue on this site in clean ...
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Dupe question… but answers are extremely different
I recently asked this question about disabling Siri entirely in the touch bar on the new Macbook Pro models. The question is technically a duplicate (and was marked as such), however the answers on ...
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How is No for an answer to a question that invites workarounds?
The upvote arrow tooltip reads
This answer is useful
"How to answer" reads
Make sure your answer provides [what is asked] – or a viable alternative. .. Any answer that gets the asker going in ...
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Should one remove me too part and hope it helps part from an answer?
Catalina and iOS 13 brought in a lot of new users and they try to be polite and helpful and write answers like:
I was having the same problem, my MacBook Pro, model xxxx, macOS xxxx was not doing ...
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Is asking a “list-like” question regarding incompatible 32-bit apps in macOS Catalina off-topic?
The subject pretty much says it all: Is asking a “list-like” question regarding incompatible 32-bit apps in macOS Catalina off-topic?
I am well aware list-like questions (aka: questions that inspire ...
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Add a Linux tag?
I have just answered a question here which related to what version of the Linux kernel would work with a MBP. The question was tagged as Dual-Boot and Unix.
The question was about dual-booting ...
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After 3 years I posted an up-to-date answer and got some bad feedback — What should I do?
We are talking about this question:
How to schedule airplane mode?
Jun 15, 2016 — I asked the question how to schedule the Airplane Mode on my iPhone.
Got answer mentioning it was not possible
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This duplicate - Are we missing something?
Earlier this month I asked my first question on this site. See: I think my Mac swallowed Facebook and Twitter - How to get them back?
Today I came back and found it had been closed as a Duplicate of ...
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Most Active Contributors Monthly Report - June 2019
Welcome to the 21st edition of the monthly Ask Different Most Active Contributors Report.
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Report for June 2019
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Live Chat event for Apple's 'By innovation only' announcement (Fall 2019)
Join us in Ask Different Chat
As many of us know, in September most years Apple hosts a press event during which new products are announced. For example, on 12 September 2018 we saw the iPhone XS and ...
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how to edit such long code/error blocks?
Accessing fileURL from My Photo Stream says "Operation not permitted"
This question has a terrible formatting. It is not suitable for:
Text: as it is code(in some form) and such texts are ...
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Are questions related to issues with the user interface in Photoshop on-topic?
Photoshop is constantly moving the window application on macOS when the menu bar overlaps it. The menu bar is set to be hidden automatically. This is a question about the Photoshop user interface and ...
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Most Active Contributors Monthly Report - May 2019
Welcome to the 20th edition of the monthly Ask Different Most Active Contributors Report.
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Report for May 2019
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Adding hints for including code in questions about scripting
Proposal
Since questions about
AppleScript, Automator, and UNIX shell scripting
are on-topic here, more impetus should be given to the questioner to include the script they have used.
Reference
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Editing for style rather than content
From time to time, I see a lot of editing being done that can be described as "merely a linguistic style choice", rather than a correction to spelling or a clarification of the question at hand. Often,...
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Most Active Contributors Monthly Report - April 2019
Welcome to the 19th edition of the monthly Ask Different Most Active Contributors Report.
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Report for April 2019
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Shout out to people for rescuing questions
I wanted to publicly recognize a handful of people that no surprise are here to help. (And very effective at helping)
https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/06/18/adios-to-unfriendly-badges-ahoy-lifejacket-...
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Stating affiliation when recommending a 3rd party software/tool
I have experienced that when writing an answer, it is generally a good practise to state the affiliation (or not) with the developer of the 3rd party app/tool if one is recommended as part of the ...
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Post ownership of an item appearing in Low Quality Posts Review queue
I was working through the Ask Different, Low Quality Posts Review Queue. Per my experience, I understand that most posts end up getting a delete vote and gets deleted eventually.
I understand (please ...
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How to address follow on questions?
@merchako has this comment on the answer https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/224772/1860:
So far, there are two questions in this comment thread that I think are highly relevant to establishing a ...
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Why was my edit rejected?
I've fixed a misspelling of OSX El Capitan in an older post, why was it rejected?
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Do my eyes deceive me? Lots of people lost a lot of reputation today
I wanted to address what was raised in chat today where some reputation changes were made and many of the highest reputation people decreased substantial amounts of reputation (and by substantial - ...
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Live Chat event for Apple's Keynote Address (WWDC 2019)
As most of us know, each year Apple hosts its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). Typically, Apple launches the WWDC with a keynote address during which it introduces upcoming software and ...
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Why was this question not closed?
I read this question about giving your iPhone & passcode to another person. The OP asked
What's the things the can do and what trace would be around to identify that action?
To my reading and ...
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Adding a Bot To Main Room
I proposed this feature in Chat a while ago and haven't had any complaints, but I wanted to ask the community before I added it.
I have developed a bot and would like to add it to the Ask Different ...
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Tag guidance spotlight - is the hacking tag representative of group consensus?
I wanted to hi-light recent changes to the hacking tag on the main site.
I took out all the “dictionary” definition from the excerpt and made it 100% about usage guidance - what should be tagged and ...
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Most Active Contributors Monthly Report - March 2019
Welcome to the 18th edition of the monthly Ask Different Most Active Contributors Report.
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Report for March 2019
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How should software development related issues be handled?
I’ve seen several issues punted to the Unix/Linux or StackOverflow exchanges, but that’s problematic.
Many things are unique to the Apple platforms.
Thanks to Darwin’s UNIX underpinnings and ...
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Can we make this question stronger with facts and references?
One question had a couple close votes that I cleared. The comments are very good and the question is a bit soft in my eyes, but I think Bill is super smart and has a good core question.
Why do so ...
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Many supposed questions are actually requests for debugging
Quite a number of questions posted require debugging of an individual situation. I don't think any of us volunteers are longing to be unpaid technical support, especially without the tools required to ...
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Is StackExchange supposed to be so hostile?
I've been making a concerted effort to contribute here, but see a lot of the same "in-crowd" politics as on other forums, particularly the open source ones.
I don't understand why there's a desire (...
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Can anyone add a censorship tag?
I'd have wanted to add it to this question:
Why doesn't iTunes allow to search for podcasts related to Uyghurs?
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Do we want to have any style guidances around indenting/centering images in questions & answers?
I recently wrote up this Q&A to show a method on how to center images from the CLI using ImageMagick - How can I center a PNG with a transparent background using the CLI?.
Through the course of ...
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Should an RSS feed of hot network questions feed any chat room(s) here?
We’ve had the beginnings of a discussion on how the community here would like to handle hot network questions.
Should a Question Ever be Removed from Hot Network Questions
I set up a temporary room ...
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Duplicate question judgments
This recent question was classified as a "duplicate" with existing answers. Two questions were cited as providing answers to the poster's question:
This question from Jul 8, 2014
This question from ...
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Why was this particular “not an answer” flag declined?
I flagged this particular answer as "not an answer". For reference, the question was:
How to block bluetooth device that spams me with pairing requests?
and the answer I flagged was:
Doesn’t ...
