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Questions about how to do things that are bad practice shouldn't be deleted because: Someone will ask the question again Its an opportunity to point out bad practice Its an opportunity to show viabl …

I've been guilty of it, and I'll say it now, it's not intentional. For example I found code that did everything I neede dit ot for an answer on Net tuts. I assumed since there were comments pointing …

I might add that in addition to EAMann's question, there's the problem that a lot of people ask questions here that would be better as support questions, they're too localised, it helps nobody else, a …

I see this as simple: The question has a real grammatical answer that is not opinion, and one was provided. Sure its easy to devolve into opinion but that's where moderation tools and downvoting com …

That said, it doesn't always paint us in a good light, but we're quite open to discussion and explanation so long as the appropriate attitude is taken and the right channels are used. …

I believe the culprit here is that the question just doesn't sound very interesting, and it's got rewrite rules which scare others off. People here answer in their spare time not as a job and pick whi …

Editing the question might help, upvoting would be better, a bounty would be brilliant. Any activity will pull it up on to the frontpage where there's recent activity making it more visible But The …

That wouldn't be fair. Bounties have a cost, and reducing your reputation as an early user shouldn't be taken lightly, otherwise everyone would do it for seemingly trivial questions. So there have to …

As an Automattician, and one who's just acquired a large number of new colleagues, I would say no. Most of the Jetpack is first party crowd are working under the assumption that WordPress is an Autom …

The problem is that opinion based questions are actually discussions, and this isn't a discussion forum. … Since the site isn't setup for extended discussion, and since we can have the same discussion over and over again, would it not be better to have those discussion on the .org forums/facebook groups/stack …

Yes, I think how core works is a great subject for a question, but I do think the example given may not be the best approach "Does WordPress implement callbacks for action hooks?" It would be ve …

I think the problem here is that it's asking for best practices, it isn't a question, but rather a prompt for a discussion. …

That post doesn't mean rules are being relaxed but that people shouldn't be super sarcastic or mean in enforcing them, rules are there for a reason. The post is about people and their conduct. It's w …

New users may not realise they should mark answers as accepted if they accept them, some users don't see the ticket button, some think this isn't a QA site at all but a discussion forum So: If a user …

Every site on stack exchange is by definition a Q & A site, such a site would basically be this site but with an expanded scope, but what you suggest isn't as simple That would produce 2 competing s …