Questions tagged [discussion]
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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2023 Community Moderator Election Results
Joomla's Moderator election #5 has come to a close. Since there were not enough candidates for a competitive election, we simply appointed the candidates who nominated themselves:
They will be ...
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2023 Community Moderator Election
The 2023 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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2023 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.
Joomla Stack Exchange is scheduled for an election next week, 2023-...
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Announcing a new attempt at a “Graduation” election for 2023
Summary: Joomla Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for an election on October 17, 2023, as your “graduation” election — after the last attempt ended up resulting in a non-competitive pro-...
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What is the protocol around educating a JSE userss about accepting answers and replying to answers?
Is there a particular protocol or etiquette with SE around giving users, particularly new users, a prompt, a nudge or an understanding the benefits of accepting answers, engaging with and following ...
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Middle Sidebar Advertising
As you all know, advertising is an important source of revenue for Stack Overflow and it helps us support all the sites across the Stack Exchange Network and the resources that go into maintaining and ...
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2023 Community Moderator Election Results
Joomla's 4th moderator election has come to a close. Since there were not enough candidates for a competitive election, we simply appointed the candidates who nominated themselves:
They will be ...
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2023 Community Moderator Election
The 2023 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
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Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...
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2023 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.
Joomla Stack Exchange is scheduled for an election next week, 2023-...
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Announcing a “Graduation” election for 2023
Summary: Joomla Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for an election on February 21, 2023, as your “graduation” election.
The timeline:
On February 14, someone from the Community Management ...
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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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Upcoming moderator election in January 2023 [duplicate]
Joomla Stack Exchange last had moderators elected around half a year ago. After discussing it with the current moderator team, we're looking at scheduling an election to start sometime in January 2023....
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Winter Summer Bash 2022 is almost here!
The most entertaining time to engage with Stack Exchange communities is during the annual "Bash" -- now being referred to as "Winter Summer Bash 2022".
See this Meta SE post which ...
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Do we want accepted answers to be unpinned on Joomla Stack Exchange?
Stack Overflow changed the way they sort answers:
We no longer pin the accepted answer (with the green checkmark) to the top of the list of answers. By default, we now sort strictly by votes (...
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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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Announcement: JSE is graduating out of Beta status!
WE DID IT! Joomla Stack Exchange is graduating out of beta status.
Joomla Stack Exchange has proven itself to be a valuable and lasting community since 2014 and will become a full "matured" ...
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Do we need both the joomla-4.x and joomla-4 tags?
The joomla-4.x tag was created first (by me if that is relevant), following the format of the previous joomla-3.x tag. There is no joomla-3 tag.
Currently there are 73 answers with the joomla-4.x tag.
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What caused @PhilTaylor to say "Im done with Stack Overflow. Again."?
There was a recent ripple in our community that should probably be cleared up -- because I can only see it as a cascading series of misunderstandings.
As far as I know, it began with @Pe7er posting a ...
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2021 Community Moderator Election Results
Joomla Stack Exchange's third moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the two new moderators are:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them ...
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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 Pro Tempore election for 2021
Summary: Joomla Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for a special election on April 26 to bring in two more moderators.
For full details of the process, see the announcement on Meta Stack ...
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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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2020 Pro-Tem Moderator Election: Community Interest Check
Joomla Stack Exchange had an election last year, and it's time to start thinking about scheduling a new one.
After discussing it with the current moderator team, and to bring the total number of ...
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Site Awards for Joomlers in Oceania
2020 Joomla Australia Site Awards
The 2020 Joomla Australia Site Awards is a competition where individuals and agencies, within Oceania*, can submit their Joomla-powered website for judging by a panel ...
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Community Promotion Ads — 2020
OMG, I can't believe that Joomla Stack Exchange has never rolled out this feature before!
Let's fix this oversight, right now and forever.
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion Ads ...
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Announcement: Monthly Joomla User Group Zoom Meetings
Every 3rd Tuesday of every month from 6pm to 8pm Australian Eastern Standard Time (0800 - 1000 UTC), Joomla Australia hosts a virtual Joomla users group meetup online. If you plan to attend, please ...
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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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Clarification of rules on duplicate answers across posts
A cut and paste of my answer to a question and a comment from the same original poster in two very different questions caused one one of my answers to get deleted as duplicate so I am just trying to ...
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2019 Community Moderator Election Results
Joomla's first moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied and the new moderator is:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly—please thank them for volunteering, ...
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Want to be a Community Moderator? Tell us what we should know about you
Moderator elections don't come around too frequently, but when they do it is important that the community understands who the candidates are.
Let's give the information and the power to the people.
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2019 Community Moderator Election
The 2019 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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2019 Joomla Stack Exchange Pro Tempore Election Q&A - Question Collection
Starting on July 8, users can nominate themselves for the announced Joomla Stack Exchange Pro Tempore Election.
Candidates should tell a bit about themselves and why they wish to become a diamond ...
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Announcing a Pro Tempore election (retry)
We recently held an election for moderator and nobody stepped up to nominate themselves. So we're going to try again in July.
Summary: Joomla Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for a ...
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2019 Community Moderator Election
The 2019 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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Support for SchuWebExtensions on JSE
User svanschu asked if they could use JSE to provide support for their extensions.
I would like to use this community to give support for my Joomla!
extensions.
http://extensions.schultschik.com
This ...
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Announcing a Pro Tempore election
Summary: Joomla Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for a special election on May 13 to bring in one more moderator.
For full details of the process, see the announcement on Meta Stack ...
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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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Whats the reason why these 2 questions got closed?
Both questions come to moderation:
Joomla Custom-Component Select Field with Editor
Subform inside modal
both get closed by mickmackusa and lodder
But I can't see why it got closed because they ...
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Why don't JSE moderators trash unnecessary comments like other SE sites?
I make flagging part of my 360° approach to volunteerism to help maintain the SE network.
I was horrified to realize that I have 61 unhelpful comment flags on my JSE account.
Comment flags: 34 ...
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Can JoomlaDay events offer "Not a Robot" badges to JSE users?
I want to do something cool at JoomlaDay Australia 2019 in Brisbane!
StackOverflow has this tag: not-a-robot Can JSE have it too?
Resources:
https://stackoverflow.com/help/badges/6381/not-a-robot
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Why disallow some review queues when daily vote max is reached?
So I discovered, after a premeditated session of voting (I've been stocking up a bunch of up|down vote-worthy posts to earn my Vox Populi badge while voting ethically), that once a user's daily vote ...
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J Cal Pro Questions on Joomla SE?
I'm just trying to get a feel from the community on whether or not I should be posting questions about J Cal Pro on Joomla SE?
1) The questions are 100% specific to the 3rd party extension.
2) There ...
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Do you also think that JSE members should vote more often?
I feel that we have very few actual voters on the site. Most members do not bother to vote too much. However voting in SE sites is essential. In my opinion, among other reasons (help good questions/...
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How to judge a new question: flagging, vote to close, editing?
We have recently updated our help/on-topic page.
There is an open discussion also here:
Topics and Questions I can ask about here! (Can you give us your feedback?). Anyone that has something to ...
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Topics and Questions I can ask about here! (Can you give us your feedback?)
@FFrewin has suggested that we improve the What topics can I ask about here wiki page as there is very little information on it.
I know for sure that everyone will have different opinions on what ...
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Are questions about configuring 3rd party Joomla extensions 'on-topic'?
If we are using a 3rd party Joomla extension and would like to post questions regarding the proper configuration of that 3rd party extension, is that considered 'on-topic' for the Joomla StackExchage ...
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Why was this answer deleted?
John Pitchers answered Cant edit my module, blank page with a input select (see below) but his answer was deleted by a moderator.
Can anyone tell me what's wrong with the answer (other than it being ...
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What is the policy on Joomla SE for uploading installables?
I recently posted a question and got no interest or answers, and since then have created a simple class and installable component for the problem. It's nothing fancy, just a useful utility that would ...
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Why does Joomla have less activity on StackExchange?
As I've been creating Joomla websites for many clients for a couple of years. I need some kind of confidence to assure my clients that Joomla is still one of the top 10 CMSs of all time and is still ...
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Congratulations Aníbal Sánchez
Congratulations on your appointment to the Joomla! Community Leadership Team
https://community.joomla.org/blogs/leadership/3071-new-members-for-community-leadership-team-2016.html
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