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What are the criteria for which a name will be considered acceptable?

discussion site-name

modified yesterday curiousdannii 2,452

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Rename “stackoverflow” tag to “stackexchange”

discussion

answered Oct 20 at 14:42 ArtOfCode♦ 5,731

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Keeping the community safely in the clear for legal issues

discussion answer-quality disclaimers

answered Oct 14 at 14:43 d3vid 596

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IANAL/TINLA - you what? Let's de-acronymize ourselves

discussion answer-quality etiquette

answered Oct 4 at 12:58 MvG 247

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Spam upvoting, just wanted to let mods know

discussion voting up-votes

modified Aug 12 at 3:53 unor 1,827

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Disputed post at SO, but it'd be great here

discussion site-crossover migration

modified Jun 30 at 18:14 Zizouz212♦ 3,455

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365 1/4 days folks!

discussion beta-phase milestones

modified Jun 29 at 1:36 Zizouz212♦ 3,455

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Can I edit these two questions to make them more generic?

discussion question-quality editing

answered Jun 18 at 14:20 Zizouz212♦ 3,455

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Let's evaluate our progress!

discussion site-evaluation

answered Jun 15 at 20:52 Tim Malone 1,515

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What's wrong with this GitHub code ownership question?

discussion scope

modified May 27 at 8:18 curiousdannii 2,452

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What's wrong with “External Resources” questions?

discussion faq scope close-reasons

modified May 19 at 0:59 Zizouz212♦ 3,455

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Are technical questions about specific software that happens to be open source on-topic?

discussion scope

modified May 18 at 7:14 Nicolas Raoul 1,195

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Where to ask these questions about recommending a project?

discussion

modified Mar 23 at 18:31 Zizouz212♦ 3,455

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Advertising Open Source - Community Ads for 2016

discussion site-promotion advertising

modified Mar 16 at 0:15 Martin Schröder 109

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Questions about the history of an open source project, but not about licenses

discussion scope

answered Mar 2 at 16:20 ArtOfCode♦ 5,731

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Availability of open source software for particular field of interest

discussion scope

answered Mar 1 at 16:31 ArtOfCode♦ 5,731

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Custom close reasons for this site?

discussion status-completed close-reasons

modified Feb 23 at 15:37 Zizouz212♦ 3,455

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Where is [old arcane project] now maintained, maybe as a fork under another name?

discussion scope

modified Feb 20 at 9:01 Nicolas Raoul 1,195

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Legal questions and jurisdiction

discussion

answered Jan 23 at 14:04 Zizouz212♦ 3,455

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Why was this question reopened by a mod?

discussion specific-question

answered Jan 12 at 20:56 Zizouz212♦ 3,455

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Asking questions about promoting open source software

discussion

answered Dec 23 '15 at 13:33 vonbrand 2,397

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Community Promotion Ads [duplicate]

answered Dec 22 '15 at 4:14 Pandya 1,106

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Alternative site name brainstorming

discussion neutrality site-name

answered Dec 17 '15 at 20:36 Erik 211

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More site name brainstorming - Part III

discussion site-name

answered Dec 17 '15 at 9:46 Pandya 1,106

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Do we want both proprietary-code and closed-source tags?

discussion tags

modified Dec 17 '15 at 8:22 Martijn 7,490

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Winter Bash 2015 is upon us! Are we in?

discussion winterbash-2015

modified Dec 16 '15 at 23:33 ArtOfCode♦ 5,731

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Site tour page talks about unicorns and daisies instead of OSS

bug status-bydesign tour

modified Dec 16 '15 at 23:31 ArtOfCode♦ 5,731

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Are questions about the licences of popular open source projects on-topic here?

discussion scope

modified Nov 9 '15 at 0:05 Community♦ 1

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Revisiting custom close reasons

discussion status-completed close-reasons

modified Nov 4 '15 at 0:10 Zizouz212♦ 3,455

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Where can I find Free/Open software, libraries and media?

discussion faq-proposed

modified Oct 15 '15 at 17:25 apsillers 5,645

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Are questions that ask about interactions of open source licenses of specific products on topic?

discussion scope specific-question

answered Oct 15 '15 at 9:40 curiousdannii 2,452

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What urgent matters do we need to resolve?

discussion meta

answered Oct 14 '15 at 9:58 Martijn 7,490

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How to encourage questions about anything but licenses?

discussion scope asking-questions

modified Oct 8 '15 at 13:31 Colomet 12

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Are questions asking for the copyright status of something on topic?

discussion scope closed-questions

answered Oct 6 '15 at 2:46 Zizouz212♦ 3,455

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How do we improve our stats?

discussion site-promotion beta-phase

answered Oct 1 '15 at 12:17 Dmitry Grigoryev 301

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I don't like [free-software]. I like the definition though :) [duplicate]

discussion status-completed tags

modified Sep 26 '15 at 1:55 Zizouz212♦ 3,455

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Receiving migrations: A community curated guide on what to do

discussion support migration

modified Sep 24 '15 at 11:18 Zizouz212♦ 3,455

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Can we make tags have “license” in them?

discussion tags

answered Sep 13 '15 at 12:23 Martijn 7,490

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To stop [licensing]… What?

discussion tags

answered Sep 13 '15 at 12:19 Martijn 7,490

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How frequently should I say “I am not a lawyer”?

discussion

modified Sep 3 '15 at 16:58 Air 235

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Should [copyleft] and [share-alike] be synonyms?

discussion status-completed tags

modified Sep 3 '15 at 13:21 ArtOfCode♦ 5,731

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What, exactly, are moderators doing to review reviewers?

discussion moderators moderation

modified Aug 31 '15 at 17:02 ArtOfCode♦ 5,731

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Stay Bright! A wake up call to moderators

discussion moderators

answered Aug 31 '15 at 16:22 ArtOfCode♦ 5,731

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Should we rethink software recommendations?

discussion scope

modified Aug 28 '15 at 20:11 Zizouz212♦ 3,455

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Is this meta tag on topic & in scope?

discussion status-declined tags meta

modified Aug 28 '15 at 9:32 ArtOfCode♦ 5,731

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What should our site goals be?

discussion status-completed

modified Aug 28 '15 at 9:28 ArtOfCode♦ 5,731

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What should our site-description be?

discussion status-completed tour

modified Aug 28 '15 at 9:18 ArtOfCode♦ 5,731

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