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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Map of related tags
I put together this mind map to represent approximate relationships I see between tags. Many tags do not fit well into a tree structure, so I've taken liberties in a few areas. Hopefully this is ...
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Rename [find-my-iphone] to [find-my]
Apple renamed Find My iPhone to Find My. We should too, because it's not just for iPhones any more.
Proposal: find-my-iphone becomes find-my
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Do we close questions already answered on other sites? [duplicate]
If a question has already been asked on another site, and over there it already has a great answer, or a collection of answers, do we want to leave it open here?
This specific question is the one ...
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Should we keep the [troubleshooting] tag?
We have this tag troubleshooting (253 questions) that is of questionable utility. Should we keep it?
It is definitely a dependent tag. If you saw a post that had just this one tag, you would not have ...
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Make [screen] a synonym of [display]
I suggest that screen (585 questions) is added as a synonym of display (2855 questions). These are the excerpts:
display: Generally a visual screen used to display graphical or text output
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Community Promotion Ads — 2020
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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What to do with “reset your NVRAM” answers?
At Apple's own community support forums, people gain a lot of reputation by copy-pasting a "reset your NVRAM or PRAM" advice to seemingly random questions (there are no downvotes there, only a "...
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Just got an “your question (from 7 years ago) is closed as duplicate of a question (17h ago)” - what is this policy?
Just for reference I'm talking about: Multiuser - can process of background user kept running?
Don't judge - not my smartest one, but back then was the first time about fast user switching.
I'm all ...
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Why a comment could be deleted?
A few days ago I asked a question on Ask Different and a user answered me. another user who is one of Ask Different moderators, leave an answer but based on the community rights, I believe his post ...
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How do I properly give props to the copyright holder (Creative Commons) of an image I use in an answer?
In this answer: Can I increase RAM from 8GB to 16GB on this model? I use an image from ifixit. The copyright holder (Sam Goldheart) uploaded it under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA licence there (Image ...
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What is the suggested tags fixation with macOS Lion?
I just asked this question about viewing logs in Console. These were the suggested tags:
These are mostly a fair guess based on the content of the question except for Lion.
iTunes is also not ...
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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.
Please don't hesitate to share your valuable feedback in the comments.
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.
Please don't hesitate to share your valuable feedback in the comments.
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.
Please don't hesitate to share your valuable feedback in the comments.
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 ...
