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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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How do we handle questions that fall into the scope of a preexisting question?

Recently we have the case, that a very specific question was asked that falls into the scope of a more generic question about the same thing. This should however just be an illustration, the issue is …
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Tag organization

In my opinion tags are very important on this side. It helps to find questions. Especially as we grow this gets more important. Currently we have some disorder in tags and it is not always easy to dec …
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Poll on tag synonyms: naming, nomenclature and terminology

Please, do not use this Q&A for discussion in answers. …
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Is self-promotion spam?

This question is triggered by me flagging a post, that does not try to answer the question and contains a link to a camera comparison, a moderator reviewing and declining it and @studiohack removing t …
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Is reusing of content of other answers good practice?

When reading answers I often find myself in the situation, that all my thoughts are already taken up in various questions, but never incorporated into one answer. Frequently the answers are of this ki …
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Editing (approving edits) of old questions for minor changes

I am certain we discussed this before, but I can't find it (probably comments only, please edit or comment if you find such previous questions): When tags on a question get changed, it gets bumped to …
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The relevance of the current "moderation/community incident(s)" in SE to TGO

I just got such into heaps of written material over a mod being sacked by SE recently and towards the end stumbled over a post by @RoryAlsop (https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/334095/295537): tl;dr …
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How do we treat questions post with more than one question in it?

On TGO it is quite common to see questions containing several, sometimes whole lists of questions. On other sites this is considered very bad stile and even thematically related questions should be as …
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Are edits that extend an answer ok?

There were two edits in the review today and I wasn't quite sure what to make of them. Both of them added a sizable part to an answer. As far as I got the topic the added content was not extending exi …
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Are questions regarding health issues generally off-topic?

Once again a discussion has sparked over whether a health related question should be on or off topic: How long until I develop immunity to stomach flu / travelers' disease? …
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How do we handle health related topics?

The sole answer to the question is indeed also relevant to my question about what kind of health question is on topic, but I still believe some more discussion and detail would be beneficial. …
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Tagging: winterraum vs winter-room

The question Are all Alpine winterraums just for emergency? has been tagged with winterraum. It is the first question with this tag and I was wondering whether this is a term used in English? If it is …
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What exactly is the distinction between hiking, trekking and backpacking?

Ideally if a clear result emerges from this discussion, we can just update the tag-wikis, otherwise we might have to start a follow-up discussion about changing/merging/... tags. …
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Should we revisit or enforce that pistols are off topic?

We have some few (open) questions about pistols and recently a debate on whether it is on-topic came up in What is the difference between single and double action revolvers?. There are two relevant ex …
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Are questions about items for collecting on topic?

I am not sure whether "collecting" is the appropriate word. What I mean is getting something mainly for the sake of having/displaying it, not using it. This question was triggered by a recent rifle qu …
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