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2022: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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Should we accept AI generated answers?
Recently I have seen a few new answers popping up for questions which are a few months or years old, the answers are not bad per-se but they feel like they were generated by an AI, e.g. Chat GPT.
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Can a moderator change the reference to "Programmers Stack Exchange" to "Software Engineering Stack Exchange" in the custom close reason?
Questions about software engineering unrelated to testing are off-topic here, but can be asked on Programmers Stack Exchange.
A couple of problems with this close reason:
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There is a new Selenium 4 version that does some things a fair bit differently than selenium 3, should get its own tag?
There is a new Selenium 4 version that does some things a fair bit differently than selenium 3 As A result it seems that it should get its own tag.
The changes include but are not limited to:
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2021: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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2021 Community Moderator Election Results
Moderator election #1 on Software Quality Assurance & Testing has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the winning moderators are:
They are your first elected moderation team — ...
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2021 Community Moderator Election
The 2021 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...
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Announcing a “Graduation” election for 2021
Software Quality Assurance & Testing Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for an election on 20 September 2021, as your “graduation” election (as a result of having lost your beta label ...
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2021 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection
The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here.
Software Quality Assurance & Testing Stack Exchange is ...
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2020: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...
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Can't answers be funny?
I noticed a funny answer was removed, although I think it was spot on. And it made me laugh. I would like more answers like that :)
Funny answers arent allowed?
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Community Promotion Ads — 2020
You lost your “beta” label in 2019, so welcome to your very first edition of Community Promotion Ads, for the year of 2020!
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion Ads are community-...
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Why wouldn't we reset all the votes on the question that is marked as dup?
Sometimes when I see new question in our community I have strong feeling that I already saw the similar one before. I start searching and quite often it turns out that there are literally dozens of ...
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2019: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, ...
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How do I notify others on comment?
How do I notify others on a comment? @is not loading names?
Tried many times.
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Congratulations, you're no longer in Beta!
This site started private beta before July 2012, so it is no longer "beta", it is a full site by our definition. We've removed the word "beta" from your site banner because we believe that you aren't ...
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What topics can I ask about
I asked a question which was subsequently deleted. While it was open, I didn't receive the basic courtesy of a response to my comment asking why it was off topic.
That narked me slightly, since I ...
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Has deleted user been involved in voting fraud?
I've lost 115 reputation points because the user who had cast votes to my questions and answers has been removed.
I can see it impacted also other users, losing even 400 points.
Reputation points ...
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What coding error questions should be offtopic and which shouldn't be?
We had some discussion about if this question is offtopic: How to read data from multiple excel sheets, where each sheet has Unique Column count - Selenium(Java)
I think it is offtopic because it is ...
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What's the value in closing old questions?
There have been a few of these lately... where questions are being closed (or are in the process of being closed) but are often over a year old or have accepted answers.
For example, this question. ...
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How can I get help with testing conundrums and mocking/unit-testing newbie ignorance
I had a longer question written up that was similar to this, but included my real question. But I wanted to start more conservatively in finding the correct forum for it...
Where should one ask ...
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Justification for re-opening
When we vote for closure we put some justification of why we think this particular question is worth closing. However when one votes for re-opening it seems the process is different. For example I can ...
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Are non-English questions allowed on this site?
Are non-English questions allowed on SQA? I have not seen anything in the help pages or the tour for SQA. I know that Stack Overflow treats non-English as off topic with a reason of unclear what you ...
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2018: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in ...
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Are questions about IDE configuration for a test framework on-topic?
There are a number of general tasks a test IDE should be capable of, like:
launching test cases/ test suites
debugging test cases
possibility to easily maintain and manage test suites
refactor ...
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Do we have a canonical answer to why the Page Object pattern is important?
The nearest I could find was What is page object modelling? and Why is it so important? ... which is over 6 years old and has less than 500 views.
Is there a better one to refer to, or could some ...
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Should moderators report on their own or take any actions when they see abnormal up-voating targeted towards them
As it is stated in community FAQ:
When a single user continually votes (up or down) on many of your posts within a short period of time, the system considers these votes to be invalid and removes ...
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Red circle in the review queue
Does anyone know why the Low Quality Posts in the Review Queues dropdown has a red circle next to it, when there isn't anything in the queue to review?
What is the red circle supposed to represent?
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How can a string of clearly malicious edit rejections be dealt with?
In every case, the question is improved by using proper English grammar and spelling, in once case it was formating code correctly and removing a bunch of superfluous imports. All rejected by the ...
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Using stack overflow to generate a knowledge base for openQA
There is this tool called openQA which is open source and is used by SUSE, openSUSE, Fedora and to some extent by Debian to test distributions as an automated testing tool, you can think of it as ...
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What is wrong with this suggested edit?
I have been editing questions on other sites for quite a few years, and I just had this one rejected, I would like to know why it was rejected.
https://sqa.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/...
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Does the community policy allow having several accounts for a single user?
I wonder if a policy allows a user register several accounts in stack exchange? Isn't it treated as a reputation cheating mechanism?
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How to prevent users from making meaningless edits
This question was raised about a year ago, but it seems to have gotten worse again lately.
A handful of users are making some really meaningless edits such as; formatting single words, removing ...
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What's happened to the Daily Visitors figure in the Site Stats sidebar?
If I remember correctly, it used to show approx 13,000 visitors a day on SQA but that number started showing as 1000, and then 50, and then 3, and now it's disappeared entirely.
I thought it was a ...
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Lowering the privileges threshold depending on popularity of site
I've been using SO and SQA for a while now and, in my opinion, believe the active participation in SQA is somewhat lacking. By this I mean voting questions and answers accordingly in order to see ...
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Why not to let the community decide if the answer is correct?
There are thousands of open questions here and they are bumped to the top sometimes. However the big part of them are abandoned so they will never be resolved unless the community vote for their ...
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How do I receive a signal the question voted for closure is worth close-vote retracting
Sometimes I vote for questions closure (usually I do not post an explanation comment why I vote for closure since I consider the reasons I choose perfectly describing the issue I can see with the ...
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Why do QA community members ignore down-voting feature
One day I came to the QA stackexchange community from SO and what I noticed after certain time has passed that (except of the QA community is less agile than SO) people here ignore voting the ...
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Why do my questions get downvoted?
Someone is going through my questions serially down-voting several in a row with no comment and explanation. Given this is a well-known pattern could the down-voters please take the time to say why . ...
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How do I know which answer to choose?
I recently asked this question: Whose responsibility is it to design test cases?.
On its face, it seems like a question with a definitive answer (eg. "The responsibility lies with ..."). The thing is,...
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Handling questions about Jenkins/CI
It seems like many of the questions tagged Jenkins (or git for that matter, but that might be a separate question) that come through really aren't about testing, but "how do I solve this problem in ...
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Handling questions about selenium for web-scraping
Recently, this question was asked on the SQA site: python selenium webdriver.
It is about all a Python script that uses Selenium to extract some data from a website. But, even though Selenium is used ...
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Can we get StackOverflow's stock off-topic reason about debugging help?
I think StackOverflow's stock off-topic close reason of:
Questions seeking debugging help ("why isn't this code working?") must include the desired behavior, a specific problem or error and the ...
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Are questions about site monitoring appropriate for this site?
I've flagged Keep a check on 404s for moderator attention, but I can't decide myself it if's appropriate for SQA or not. So, meta. Basically, the person wants to know how best to long-term monitor a ...
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How can we reduce the number of "cannot find element" questions
SQA seems repetitively full of "here is my code, why does it error" style questions.
I think to improve the quality of SQA as a resource we need to move the focus away from these specific questions.
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How should we deal with questions about definitions?
I just voted to close What is the difference between delete and block user from a list?; since closing questions is apparently a sensitive issue, I thought I should bring it up for discussion. This ...
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Are questions on yaml for testng coding on topic?
I wanted to ask a question on structuring common and test-specific data in yaml files for using with DataProviders in TestNG. However, there is no tag for yaml so I don't know if this belongs on SQA ...
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How can I see the list of the most viewed question ever?
In case I am missing it or it is biting me in the face, is there a way I can view the list of the:
most viewed question
most voted question
most answered question
I`m looking for an all time span ...
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How do we get better at closing/reopening questions?
A while back, Niels van Reijmersdal asked a question about the closing police. Since then, they've gotten the more negative title of the "closing mafia".
I've just gotten enough rep to help review ...
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What will be the actions taken over 'Unanswered' questions?
I have seen there are a number of questions available who do not have a single answer; even though they are fully related to the 'Software Quality Assurance & Testing' on SQA-Beta site.
Most of ...
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