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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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Why are SE Chat Users Sending *These* Questions to WPSE?

See here: https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/30321/sourcing-content-and-images-for-office-interior-design-blog The gist of the question: a) The ideas to blog about, how do they find ou …
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Flag as Community Wiki?

See this question: Wordpress programming video tutorials It certainly doesn't fit the WPSE Q & A format, but the question could potentially add value, e.g. as a Community Wiki. So, I've not voted to …
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WPSE Content Scraping?

So, I fully understand the licensing of WPSE content; however, what is the general thought toward content scrapers scraping WPSE answers? For instance, I found this site had scraped this answer, when …
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How to handle answers to off-topic questions?

See here, for example: https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/47147/how-to-select-only-last-six-row-values-from-mysql-database The question is obviously off-topic, as it is purely a SQL questi …
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Should known bugs be explicitly listed as "off-topic" in the FAQ scope?

See here, for example: https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/51596/wordpress-does-not-return-404-when-the-url-is-changed The OP knows that the behavior is a bug, and even links to the Trac bu …
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Where is the line for specific-Plugin support questions?

It seems that we as the WPSE community haven't yet drawn a clear line of distinction regarding appropriate level of support questions for specific Plugins/Themes/etc. The reason that I ask now is t …
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Two Answers the Same: one downvoted, the other upvoted/accepted

Riddle me this: WooThemes PremiumNews Theme jQuery Conflict with WordPress 3.2 I posted an answer to this question; half an hour later, someone else posts the same answer. Mine is down-voted; the lat …
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WPSE as proxy plugin support site?

I think this plugin is a good starting point for this discussion. I note that it has a particularly low - even by normal WPSE standards - participation/activity rate and accepted-answer rate. …
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Why Do Open Bounties Prevent Close Votes?

See this question: Recommend an open source, template driven website builder UI that produces a working WordPress site I attempted to close-vote this question as too localized, based on the OP's comm …
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Tag for off-topic subject: wordpress.com

So, we've stated explicitly that wordpress.com (use, setup, features, account, support) is off topic. Yet, we have almost 200 questions tagged <wordpress.com>. Should these posts be auto-moderated (i …
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Should we always default to related Meta.SO answers to our own Meta questions?

Often, a question is asked here in Meta, and the initial answer begins with, "this question was asked on Meta.SO, and the accepted answer was..." (with a link to the referenced question. I question w …
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Is This a "Do My Work For Me" question?

See here: Custom page template to display all image attachments Is this question becoming a "do my work for me" type question? I'm going to go ahead and try to answer it fully, but for future referen …
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Need some help with focusing/clarifying a question

See here: Where should a plugin or widget cache its results? I'm trying to help the OP clarify/focus the question, but I'm struggling. As it is, it's bordering on not a real question, due to its vagu …
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Asking Grammatical Questions on WPSE

It is not constructive, because it solicits opinion and extended discussion. …
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Yet Another Improperly Migrated Question

To wit: https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/82306/images-appear-broken-due-to-timthumb-resizing I know that WPSE mods discuss migrations with other sites' mods before migrating questions to …
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