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Other places for help when off-topic (or not clearly on-topic) for GIS SE?

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Is GIS stackexchange ill?

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answered Apr 1 at 21:54 Babel 13.7k

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How on-topic are ArcObjects code questions?

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modified Mar 24 at 2:45 PolyGeo♦ 61.6k

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What has become of the user Joseph user:25814?

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modified Mar 19 at 4:01 Community♦ 1

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Should questions asking for product, service, data and learning (course, book, website) recommendations be explicitly off-topic?

discussion scope recommendations-questions

modified Mar 14 at 22:31 PolyGeo♦ 61.6k

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Tagging questions related to education and learning (that often relate to research and career)?

discussion tags recommendations-questions

modified Mar 14 at 22:31 PolyGeo♦ 61.6k

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Product recommendation / map request on-topic?

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modified Mar 14 at 22:26 PolyGeo♦ 61.6k

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Why question about looking for geograpic dataset with specific requirements was closed as “relating to general IT or with no clear GIS component”?

discussion scope close-reasons

answered Mar 9 at 21:51 PolyGeo♦ 61.6k

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Asking good Questions for GIS Stack Exchange?

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modified Mar 7 at 21:55 PolyGeo♦ 61.6k

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How do you get the underlying thought of someone who has put a bounty on an old question?

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modified Mar 4 at 0:04 Community♦ 1

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Moving community of GIS tool to GIS Stack Exchange

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modified Feb 28 at 1:45 PolyGeo♦ 61.6k

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Are opinions that bad?

discussion close-reasons

modified Feb 23 at 11:03 PolyGeo♦ 61.6k

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If an original post gives a misleading assumption in the question should it be edited?

discussion editing comments

modified Feb 20 at 6:15 PolyGeo♦ 61.6k

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Creating HowTo section for Open Source Software tools or best practices in GIS Stack Exchange?

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modified Feb 20 at 6:12 PolyGeo♦ 61.6k

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On Imagery: best practice opinions for folder arrangement? [closed]

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Should we promote FOSS community events?

discussion advertising

modified Feb 9 at 3:09 PolyGeo♦ 61.6k

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Helping GIS SE community growth

discussion advertising

modified Feb 7 at 11:22 PolyGeo♦ 61.6k

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whether to use self-study tag

discussion tags

modified Jan 29 at 7:02 PolyGeo♦ 61.6k

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User @whuber not moderating anymore

discussion moderators

answered Jan 23 at 4:18 PolyGeo♦ 61.6k

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2020: a year in moderation

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modified Jan 21 at 11:27 JNat♦ 101

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Too many questions On Hold and Closed?

discussion closed-questions

modified Jan 21 at 0:18 PolyGeo♦ 61.6k

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Tagging questions about Python Add-Ins

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modified Jan 18 at 4:40 PolyGeo♦ 61.6k

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Is it necessary to add a minimal code to question when self-answering?

discussion close-reasons code

modified Jan 8 at 21:24 PolyGeo♦ 61.6k

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Are we allowed to speak in native language in GIS.SE chat rooms?

discussion chat internationalization languages

modified Dec 29 '20 at 14:57 Kadir Şahbaz 28.6k

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Any coding tags missing code language setting for syntax highlighting?

discussion tags syntax-highlighting formatting

modified Dec 26 '20 at 19:48 PolyGeo♦ 61.6k

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Syntax highlighting for QGIS expressions

discussion syntax-highlighting

modified Dec 26 '20 at 19:46 PolyGeo♦ 61.6k

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What is the purpose of very old questions appearing on the top?

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answered Dec 24 '20 at 21:26 PolyGeo♦ 61.6k

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Question closed as a duplicate - points instead of two shapefiles

discussion duplicate-questions

answered Dec 23 '20 at 17:20 Midavalo♦ 28.5k

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Writing code snippets to get quicker answers

discussion faq questions code

modified Dec 22 '20 at 13:13 Kadir Şahbaz 28.6k

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Paste an image after codeblock

support

answered Dec 21 '20 at 16:43 Glorfindel 464

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Using images within comments?

feature-request status-declined comments images

answered Dec 21 '20 at 16:41 Babel 13.7k

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Formatting text as code inside a numbered paragraph

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modified Dec 17 '20 at 22:54 Kadir Şahbaz 28.6k

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Am I eligible to use content of questions in my educational materials?

discussion support

answered Dec 7 '20 at 22:50 PolyGeo♦ 61.6k

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Open a new tab for added links

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modified Dec 1 '20 at 10:13 PolyGeo♦ 61.6k

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Choosing Stack Exchange site for general geography questions [duplicate]

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modified Nov 9 '20 at 19:39 PolyGeo♦ 61.6k

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Changing Google Earth Engine support link text and image

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Review: Delete or Recommend deletion

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answered Nov 4 '20 at 14:31 Glorfindel 464

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Undelete question about population by timezone offset?

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modified Oct 9 '20 at 9:54 PolyGeo♦ 61.6k

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SSL certificate for meta.gis.stackexchange.com expired/domain mismatch

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modified Sep 30 '20 at 23:26 PolyGeo♦ 61.6k

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Why simple answers bring that much reputation?

discussion votes answers reputation

answered Sep 22 '20 at 11:59 Houska 4,413

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Several separate answers OR One answer with several nested answers?

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modified Sep 7 '20 at 20:44 MrXsquared 14.1k

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Code blocks are hard to distinguish from normal text

bug design code

answered Sep 7 '20 at 8:54 PolyGeo♦ 61.6k

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Why is link only answer flag declined?

discussion moderation flagging answers

modified Aug 23 '20 at 0:07 Andre Silva 9,401

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Do we need to add a new [webhook] tag?

discussion tags

answered Aug 12 '20 at 21:55 PolyGeo♦ 61.6k

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Would it be useful to force accept answers?

discussion status-declined accepted-answer

modified Aug 9 '20 at 7:41 PolyGeo♦ 61.6k

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Should we have some sort of GeoTag?

discussion tags

modified Jul 28 '20 at 0:02 PolyGeo♦ 61.6k

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What to do when question edits were rolled back?

discussion questions editing etiquette

modified Jul 24 '20 at 6:54 PolyGeo♦ 61.6k

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Enabling HTTPS tag

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