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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Should retagging not move questions to the top of the active list?
Retagging questions currently moves them to the top of the active questions list. (I'm not sure, but I think this move may be a result of the retag function having been merged with the edit ...
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Discussion questions on meta - where do you discuss?
This a meta-meta question. When a question on meta is tagged discussion, I take it to mean that the point is to discuss, with maybe not a final goal of having one "answer", although with that ...
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Take back a flag?
I recently flagged a question (this one) as really bad (because it was). However, I also left a comment for the original poster letting them know that it was really vague and not a good fit. The ...
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Badges for answering X and asking Y number of questions
There are badges for achieving a certain amount of activity for: voting, visiting, editing, reviewing, and flagging. But there is no activity level badge for answering x number of questions, or for ...
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Are ergonomics questions appropriate on UX?
I have a number of questions about ergonomics related to computer/laptop use, including what title an ergonomics expert has, because maybe what I actually want is a consultant - my interest is ...
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Is “website-design” a useful tag?
Our most common tag is website-design. Without reading the tag's wiki, it seems like most questions on this site are about "web-design," which means that many users may begin typing "web" and then ...
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How to encourage questions
Firstly, I am suggesting this only for UX.se, so please don't migrate it to the Stack Overflow meta.
Right now UX.se has become almost exclusively about computer related UX and mostly leaves out the ...
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Respond to someone reviewing my suggested edit
I recently made a revision to this question.
It was a substantial revision because the OP had posted an answer to the question that should have been an edit to the question. I flagged that answer ...
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What is a “rant”?
I noticed a question today that had a large image that, in my mind, was effectively a rant:
It seems like images like this add no value to the question itself, but I'm curious what the rest of the ...
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Is the current tag-synonym design hard to use?
I don't think the current site design makes it very clear which direction tag synonyms point. (If you are encountering the same issue, I've posted a solution. It took me a while to figure it out.)
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If one tag is a subcategory of another, should it be tagged as a synonym?
For example, I proposed behavioral-psychology (with only one post tagged) as a synonym of the much more common psychology (87 posts), but now I'm not so certain I should have because there's also the ...
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Tidying up tag synonyms
I've been looking at some of the lesser used tags and proposing tag synonyms. I've found several in tags that I don't have five upvotes for yet, but that look like they might be good synonyms. If ...
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Why aren't duplicate questions automatically merged? Or at least linked both directions?
When a question is closed as a duplicate, it automatically includes a link to the question that it was a duplicate of. In cases where it's closed before it has been answered, this approach makes ...
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Why do we punish users for returning to answer their own questions?
I posted a question a couple of months ago that got several answers. At the time, I clicked to "accept" the one that seemed best to me, and when I did I got a +2 bonus to my reputation.
In the time ...
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Can we broaden the area between “too narrow” and “too subjective”?
I asked a question earlier today that I was half-expecting to be closed, largely because I wanted to test out whether it would be. That is was closed within only two hours indicates something highly ...
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I don't get it. What is the difference between these two questions?
I've been contributing for while but I'm still coming to grips with the nuances involved with accepting a question or trashing it.
I didn't post a response to this question - Good UX for a page - ...
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Why are we so uptight?
I see many questions which are downvoted and locked immediately, most of them from fairly new users. How about we give them a chance to re-frame the question or remove it themselves, rather than ...
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Approve edits to answer by questioner?
I approved an edit to an answer that was made not by the user who gave the answer but by the user who asked the question and accepted the answer.
Was this the correct action, or should I have ...
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Why Is 20 rep required to chat?
Why
why you have to have 20 reputation points to be able to chat online? Is it because you have to be well known??
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why did Doc Brown's delightful April Fools' post disappear?
Yesterday I came across the amazing and delightful post by Doc E Brown regarding his "chrononaut transporter machine". But today the post is gone. Vanished. Poof. Gone to the big 404 graveyard.
Here ...
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How do I add mockups and/or visuals to my questions?
When discussing UX, I find that it is helpful to have visual aid to help clarify the discussion. However I find that many of the discussions contain only bare text with hardly a visual in sight.
So ...
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Why does the order of voting affect score?
I just noticed that if you get say 30 upvotes in a day, and hence reach your 200 point cap, and then get a downvote, your score for the day becomes 198.
If however you get 10 upvotes, a downvote, and ...
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Update FAQ to state that tool recommendation questions are out of scope
Over the past four months there has been a lot of discussion about the Tool category. The general consensus seems to be that in most cases, these questions are out of scope. That is the direction ...
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Do we close off topic “Community Wiki” questions?
I'm doing some cleaning in the archives this weekend and I found the question What are some great web-based prototyping tools? which is a community wiki question. However tool request questions have ...
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What if I disagree with the closing of another person's question?
This question was recently closed because it was thought to be a duplicate of "Do users understand the browser back button?". In my comment I explained why I disagree: there are situations where a ...
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Podcast dedicated to UX
Does anybody want to have a UX Stackexchange podcast? I think it'd be really cool, because UX is really, a living breathing field, and there'd be enough to talk about weekly (or at worst monthly), I'd ...
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Move to Graphics Design instead of close?
Recently, this question was closed on UX. I think that that is a pity, even though it does not belong on UX. The question IMHO shows real effort. Would this question be welcome on Graphics Design ...
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Why has the generalist badge not been awarded yet
The Generalist badge states: Provided non-wiki answers of 15 total score in 20 of top 40 tags
However it has not been awarded yet, and there should be a few people who have met this criterion. I ...
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Should “Why does x company do…”or “Is there a reason why x does y” questions be removed?
There are many questions (including one of my own) that fall into the category of "Why did
X company do Y?" Should these questions be removed for not being constructive? Examples: iOS multitasking ...
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Are questions asking for research on topic?
If I have a question that is along the lines of "A versus B, is there publicly available research available" is this on topic for this site?
I do not want blog posts or opinion, but I'm not sure if ...
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Why was this question closed?
I asked this question ages ago and I received some answers as well. I just want to understand why it was closed as not a real question. it is clearly a question about how a search page is designed and ...
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Are “Why did ________ do ________?” questions answerable?
Recently I've been seeing a lot of questions asking why a particular vendor or organization chose a particular design (for example, this, this or this).
These questions can certainly be interesting, ...
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Should questions with a tag in the title be edited to remove tag?
I noticed two recent questions had their title prefixed by what is really a tag:
E-commerce - Is it user-friendly to not provide the option to filter by price?
E-commerce - Where should I display ...
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What's the best way to use official UX style guides in answers?
A lot of questions seem to be of the form "What's the best way / another way to provide functionality X on platform Y?". See, for example, Alternative for circles page indicator for many pages?
My ...
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Advice on answering industrial design and “rabbit-hole” questions
There have been a number of questions tagged "physical" in recent weeks. As interesting as the questions are about physical objects and how people use/abuse them, I couldn't help but wish for an ...
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Why do links use very similar colours for :visited, :hover and regular links?
When scanning the main page, I find it a little difficult to differentiate between visited links and regular links. I can see the difference but it always catches me off guard as visited links seem to ...
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Are questions about UI in languages other than English on-topic?
Are questions about User Interface messages or menu items involving languages other than English on-topic ?
Also, are questions about problems with translating/converting a UI from English to other ...
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Edit “Icon for X” questions not too localized to visual metaphor requests and reopen?
13 months ago the community decided to put an end to “Icon for X” questions. This was a good call then, but I feel the need to bring the subject up for revision again, it's been 13 months and all. I ...
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When and how often do we review what questions are acceptable?
This question was triggered by Benny's question on Why do we say we "browse" to a place on the Internet when we actually download a web server’s content to our browser?
To me that question ...
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Why can I flag the same question twice?
Just out of curiosity, why can I flag the same question twice without being informed that I've already flagged this question?
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Migration from Academia.SE on design of software website
I'm a mod on Academia.SE, and we recently had a question on "What is the best website design for open source academic software?", would you think it is a good fit for UX.SE? In this case, I could ...
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American vs British English and spelling edits
I recently noticed someone applied a minor edit to one of my answers that changes a word from British English to American English. I searched around a bit, and found similar questions on other SE meta ...
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'User listings' reputation stats are confusing and appear inconsistent in behaviour
I noticed today browsing Users that reputation isn't been calculated on a rolling calendar and as such is quite odd. At first I thought it was a cache issue, but now I see otherwise.
I've been on ...
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Tag wiki excerpts starting with different case
Editing some of the tag wikis I was wondering, if there is or should be a consistent way for writing concerning the starting of the tag excerpt.
Some tag excerpts start as if the excerpt were to be ...
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Why are tags limited to 5
Why is there a limit to 5 tags for questions?
Why is there no information for the user that there is a limit until they try enter more than 5 tags?
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For complex questions better to make one big one or break components into separate questions?
When you have a multi-part question where there is more than one component or UI element involved, is it better to ask a single question where everything is neatly presented in context but the answers ...
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When is it appropriate to answer the same question twice?
I just did on the question Responsive Web Design - what should happen when the mobile device is rotated?, but got advised to edit my first answer. But my first answer is from early august this year, ...
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Gratitude Comment Missing
Someone thanked me for contributing content to this website. Now that comment is missing. I linked to it on my portfolio website. Where'd it go? Bring it back.
I don't care who deleted it. I don't ...
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Would it be weird to try to consciously try to get the Peer Pressure badge?
The badge reads:
Deleted own post with score of -3 or lower
If someone's trying to play the system, they could actually spam the system, make the typical "What icon would be suitable for...?" ...
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Is it good or bad practice to update a question with the outcome of the implementation?
Is it good or bad practice in this community to update a question you have asked with a follow up describing the outcome of the implementation?
Many of the questions asked here are about problems ...
