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Policy regarding changing questions after a period of time?
Is there a policy about changing the question after a period of time has passed since asking it and when there are already quality answers?
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Let's make Mi Yodeya more friendly to people and machines that can't see images: alt text fix
Background
Today in the chatroom, we were discussing the practice of adding meaningful alt text to images on the web. Alt text is displayed when the image cannot be displayed and is therefore ...
Isaac MosesMod
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How to deal with multiple questions asked in one?
There are many questions currently in our system that have more than one distinct question stuffed into a single posting.
Two quick examples:
Cholent falafel Bracha
Why is chicken “meat” (w.r.t. ...
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Generalizing a specific question
A question asks about case A. All the answers explain the rule with respect to cases A and B which have the same rule (or at least no one has yet to find a distinction). Is it appropriate to ...
Double AAMod
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Dealing with incorrect answers
Suppose an answer is blatantly incorrect. (E.g. it quotes a Talmudic passage to answer the question, but the passage in question actually says the exact opposite.)
I would assume that normally the ...
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What to do with fixable request for psak questions
A few times I have come across questions like this one, kasher a nonkosher Le Creuset pot?, that are put on hold due to a clear request for psak but if edited could yield a good(?, at least on topic) ...
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Should vague titles be clarified?
Should questions with vague or ambiguous titles be edited to more specifically indicate their contents? If so, with how heavy a hand (i.e. how much deferrence should be paid to the poster's right to ...
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Rules regarding the name of G-od in the website?
I'm a bit shocked to see how The Name is written without any "changes" in it and how the vocalization is freely unveiled.
Since it's completely forbidden to pronounce or use in vain, I would like ...
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Link only answers
There are several examples of link only answers which are as we know deprecated and not very useful for this site. Usually someone comments on the answer requesting a summary of the link, or similar ...
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Allow editing of site-specific tag wikis in meta
As discussed here, it would be quite useful for us to create a meaningful tag wiki for weekly-topic-challenge, but unfortunately, it seems that we actually can't edit tag wikis here on Meta; tag wikis ...
Isaac MosesMod
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How can we encourage posters to fix their questions?
Related/followup to this post.
Many posts get closed for being unclear. In a previous discussion (above link) someone suggested that we are closing too many questions as unclear. In my answers there ...
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Exclude tag changes from 'active' list
Especially on the smaller stackexchange sites, the main page's active list is the main place to go to see the new activity. However sometimes, new answers and questions are lost, or flushed through ...
Double AAMod
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Changed Questions - answer etiquette
If, contrary to the position written up here, an asker changes a question after an (upvoted) answer is given because the asker wished to refine the question in order to get a different answer, should ...
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Shouldn't people be notified when a voted upon answer is later edited?
This one's been bugging me for a while.
Many times, people will vote on my answers, and then I'll edit it afterwards.
They should be notified when I edit it, so that they can choose to see if they ...
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Does a question post body need to have all relevant info for the question in it, or can some, or even all, of the question be in only the title?
That's my question; what do you think?
Okay, that was a particularly egregious example (though not unlike some I've seen on Mi Yodeya). A more common example is when someone is asking, say, whether ...
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Let's fix our now-broken images
Stack Exchange is in the process of switching to HTTPS on all sites. As part of this, they have already fixed links to images hosted on imgur (which is where images go if you upload them in a post). ...
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Should we edit or comment information that forms the basis of another's question?
When I know what another user's question is based on, should I leave them a comment, telling them to edit this source into their question, or should I just go ahead and edit it?
This question, at ...
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What to do with an answer that's part-right, part-wrong?
Consider this recent answer about dealing with smoke detectors making annoying noise on Shabbat. In it, the answerer, coming from a point-of-view outside traditional Judaism but knowledgeable and ...
Isaac MosesMod
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Changing a Question to Better Fit the Answers and For the Sake Of the Internet?
As many of the mods here know, i posted a question regarding where to buy cantillation CDs. However, none of the answers posted answer the question, and it seems like there is a lot of content online, ...
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Deleting partially obsolete comments
Should comments that have been made partially obsolete (e.g., by clarifications that were requested in the comments subsequently being incorporated into the question) be subject to deletion by ...
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Is it possible to edit a deleted question?
Is it possible to edit a deleted question?
This question is its own answer.
The following text was added by a mod, by the original author, and by another 10K+ user, while the question was deleted, ...
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Is it possible to view previous versions or edits/revisions of questions?
Is it possible to view previous versions or edits/revisions of questions, like on Wikipedia?
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What should we do with edits to questions that invalidate answers that found a way around the original question?
Our current policy is that if there is a question with an upvoted answer, the asker should not edit that question to clarify his intention if it invalidates the answer. In my experience, when that ...
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