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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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Are Amazon affiliate codes appropriate?

Your affiliate code is stripped away and replaced by a Stack Overflow-specific link, so don't worry about it.
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Tag renaming from plugin-reccomendation to plugin-rec

There was a discussion about this on the WebApps Meta, and the participants there are not in favor of this format. …
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Are any affiliate links appropriate/allowed?

I would not support affiliate links. As Thomas noted, the SO FAQ refers to affiliations with products and companies you are involved in ("The product our company created seems like a good solution to …
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What should our question title guidelines be?

Maybe we should just experiment with it? Here are the questions currently on the front page. If you can think of a better title, add it after the original one (double space at the end of the line inse …
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When will our pro tem moderators be put in place?

On other sites this was done when the site was in public beta for one week, so the new people also get to say something. Some of the first users are from the Stack Overflow team, and of course they ha …
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What WordPress-specific information should we have in the FAQs?

The FAQ will need to be curated, which requires discussion about what to include and what not, and in what order. …
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What to do with retaliatory down-voting

As googletorp said, don't worry too much about it. The worst thing that can happen is that you get one downvote, compared to all the upvotes you can get from the rest of the community. The other answ …
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Should commercially promotional usernames be allowed?

I believe there is no policy about this on the regular Stack Overflow sites, because it isn't really a problem there. Your username links to your user profile, and you were always free to link to your …
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Should "WordPress Answers" be merged with other CMS proposals?

I asked a similar question at the beginning of the beta: what is the scope of WordPress Answers, and how does it differ from the existing sites? Are there questions that we allow, but are not allowed …
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Is this just a wordpress plug-in? We'd like to try to do this for a LGBT audience.

This site is part of the Stack Exchange network of Q&A sites. New sites can be proposed via the Area51 site. There is already a LGBT proposal, but it needs more work to define the scope. A (maybe) rel …
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Lots of Questions, LOTS of Good Answers, but not as many Active Users?

Having a small userbase doesn't have to be a problem, if questions get good answers. And this still seems to be the case, our answer percentage has gone up recently. But indeed, it would be nice if we …
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WPA Meta Meeting #1

Just an answer to bump this to the top. Today, 21:00 UTC. It is scheduled in the chat room so you can see the correct time.
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Standard Answers - E.g. Solve Issues Caused by a specific Plugin

Maybe also related: What WordPress-specific questions do we want in the FAQs? That question got a bit side-tracked because we were not clear about what a "FAQ" was: is it a "best of WordPress Answers" …
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SQL / MySQL related questions - where to guide them?

I think this question does belong on WPSE, since it refers to creating tables with the correct charset and collation from a plugin. Reading your article makes me think that using the $wpdb->charset an …
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Should we drop WordPress.com questions from the site?

There are currently 38 questions tagged with wordpress.com, and 9 of them are from the same user. Some questions also deal with migrating from WP.com to a self-hosted site, and may thus be on-topic (w …
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