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Announcing Winter Bash 2016 for GIS SE (unless hat haters make their case ASAP)?
Homer Simpson says "Yes (participate)" better than I can.
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Is GIS stackexchange ill?
It is true that the industry has evolved and now many questions have found a new place in other communities. I would like to start a conversation about the usefulness of some of these sites (like the ...
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Keep or delete [qgis-3] version tag?
I believe that QGIS 3.0 and QGIS 3.2 are essentially the same series. QGIS 3.4 comes out 26/10/2018 and also belongs in the same series.
Additionally, a lot of plugins and features are being ported ...
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Reaching 80,000 answered questions before questions on our site reaches 100,000?
Vote Early, Vote Often
Upvoting answers, when warranted, quickly moves questions off the Unanswered list if they have a net 0 vote.
Downvoting answers, when warranted, helps to push low quality ...
PolyGeoMod
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2016 Community Moderator Election Results
Thanks everyone for your votes. I'm humbled and happy to be joining the company of the existing moderators. I look forward to the task.
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Is GIS stackexchange ill?
While I actually agree with your feeling here, I think it's important to keep in mind that the community (both this site specifically and SE in general) has changed quite a bit over the years, so ...
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User @whuber not moderating anymore
It is kind of you to notice and to ask.
I had not been very active here in the last four years or so and wore the moderator's diamond as a reminder of the past rather than as a tool to help the site. ...
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Are Google abusing us?
I currently work on the Google Earth Engine team. I'm not primarily involved in developer/user relations, but I've advised those who are on how best to interact nicely with Stack Exchange (and I ...
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2016 Community Moderator Election Results
Congratulations to everyone that voted and nominated themselves for the Election. Condolences to 'Evil Genius' but if it was not for your nomination, the election process could of not made it into the ...
MapperzMod
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2016 Community Moderator Election Results
Yes, many thanks to all who voted, and to @EvilGenius for ensuring there was a vote. Your turn next time! And of course congratulations also to @Fezter (who I swear was already a mod!)
MidavaloMod
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Encouraging answerers to upvote question they are answering?
The upvote guidance on questions is:
This question shows research effort; it is useful and clear
It does not suggest that an upvote should, in any way, be related to whether the question receives ...
PolyGeoMod
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2019: a year in moderation
Personally, I would rather see more questions closed by the vote of community users in the reviews than by the decision of a moderator.
From the point of view of the user asking the question, the ...
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Policy for users reporting their employment status at commercial software companies?
I've watched this post for the past couple days...spending way more time than anyone should reading edit history and comments. That nonsense in itself is why I quit on GIS.SE for a few months. But me ...
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Is GIS stackexchange ill?
In addition to several good reasons already posted in answers here, there is another factor that I don't think I've seen addressed yet...
The longer the site has been around, the more likely it is ...
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Using GIS SE rather than Stack Overflow for Here Maps questions?
I think Here Maps is more on-topic here at GIS SE than it would be at Stack Overflow.
We have currently not had all that many questions tagged here-maps and would welcome more.
As on any site, be ...
PolyGeoMod
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Why is the Python tag inappropriate for a question about Shapely?
I think the python tag and other language related tags are not superfluous and should be used whenever the question is related to that language for two reasons:
Syntax highlighting uses tags on the ...
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Removing personal email addresses from questions?
...should the email be removed?
Yes, personal information goes in the user profile page.
Posts must be kept as clean as possible, i.e, without user signatures, salutations, and other kinds of ...
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"One question per question" rule being applied excessively literally
As long as
it's sufficiently clear what (single) question is being asked(and that's obvously the case when you've marked it up to appear in bold)
and
the other questions are indeed there
to ...
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How does the community feel about non-arcpy answers to arcpy questions?
In my experience most people using the arcpy site package would be more than happy to learn about potentially more efficient or cleaner approaches using open source python tools. I always keep in the ...
AaronMod
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Can we enforce the "Answers in Answer section" rule more?
I have noticed the same and agree despite being guilty of it myself. There are many answers (or almost answers) being offered in comments, however I think we do OK with handling these when they ...
MidavaloMod
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Why do people make lame edits to my post?
They get 2 points for the accepted edit - community standards say we don't add signatures, thanks or other "unnecessary" fluff to our questions or answers.
There's no harm in tidying up questions or ...
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Dealing with Q&As using deprecated/non-existent PyQGIS API functions?
In my opinion, answers should specify the version they are written for. If the API changes over time, an update to the answer or a new answer should be added to point out the API change.
I'm not a ...
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