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How do we feel about employees of contracting/consulting firms including links to their employer in their answers?
I've been seeing more people linking to their employers recently:
https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/a/425029/24889
All of the remaining answers by this particular user (they've been consistently ...
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Consistent downvoting of questions
Is it just me, or do >50% of questions get instantly downvoted on SFSE? IMHO this is contributing to muddle the actual representation of the quality of individual questions, and even worse: ...
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2024 Community Moderator Election Results
Moderator election #4 on Salesforce has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderator is:
They will be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for volunteering and ...
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Should this "Best Practice" question have been closed?
I came across a (nearly) 5 year old question today that was closed as "Off Topic"; I was surprised because the question was the exact question I had come to research, and the discussion in ...
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Correct Approach to Handling GenAI Answers?
What's the correct approach for answers that have been, or suspected to be, generated via AI? I've flagged as in need of mod intervention and stated suspected AI generated but happy to hear if there ...
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2024 Community Moderator Election
The 2024 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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2024 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.
Salesforce Stack Exchange is scheduled for an election next week, ...
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2023: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here might be ...
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Can "Welcome to SFSE" pre-canned response be added to the First Post Queue "Share Feedback" option?
I spent a little time this morning in the moderation queues; something I haven't done in a while. While in the Low Quality Posts queue, I believe there was an option to include a pre-canned welcome ...
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Stepping down as moderator
I've been a moderator at Salesforce Stack Exchange for more than four years now. It's been a really lovely time, and I remain incredibly honored by the community's decision to elect me as one of its ...
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Salesforce MVP Class of 2024 Nominations Are Open
You can now nominate who you believe should become Salesforce MVP in 2024.
Find more information about the MVP programme
Or go directly to the nomination page
Many here on SFSE are already MVPs, and ...
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Should we be trying to steer questions here from Stack Overflow?
Stack Overflow continues to get a decent number of Salesforce questions, probably because it is better known. For example, there have been over a dozen new questions just this week. Some are getting ...
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How is Populist badge calculated?
According to the badge page, Populist badge is calculated as follows :
Highest scoring answer that outscored an accepted answer with score of more than 10 by more than 2x. This badge can be awarded ...
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Automate detection of obvious loan shark spam?
We have seem a spate of loan shark spam postings. Is there a way to detect these and invite users to mark them as likely spam, promoting spam flagging over down voting?
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GPT policy and GPT detectors
Stack Overflow has issued guidance to moderators across the network to not use GPT detectors to support content moderation.
The TL;DR (as this guidance has not yet been shared publicly) is that GPT ...
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Should we have a Salesforce-support tag?
I want to understand the StackExchange community member's thoughts on having a tag for questions that would need Salesforce support's intervention. Currently, a few of us are already monitoring ...
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Data Cloud, CDP, Salesforce CDP, Genie tag alignment
There aren't a ton of questions yet, but I'd like to propose a structure to connect and rationalize tags around Salesforce Data Cloud.
There are already three tags competing for which is the best tag: ...
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Ongoing spam wave
You might have noticed we have a bit of a spam wave going on at the moment. The mods are getting it cleaned up. Thank you for all of your work flagging!
Please keep in mind, with spam users, the best ...
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Suggest tag Maps
I noticed there is no tag yet for Maps. The forum does not allow me to use it, because it looks too much like map, which is a completely different thing:
For those who don't know: I am referring to ...
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Should we disallow chatGPT answers?
I'm seeing an uptick in "answers" that I suspect have been generated by chatGPT (or another similar tool). The most recent example being this answer from a user who signed up in the past ...
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Merging three tags for same SFMC feature
Currently three tags exist, which basically relate to the same Marketing Cloud related feature:
einstein-recommendations,
predictive-intelligence and
personalization-builder
Preferably, I see a ...
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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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Congratulations, and thanks, to Daniel Ballinger for reaching 100,000 reputation!
100,000 is such a nice, round numberin base 10, at least.
Let's take this opportunity to celebrate Daniel Ballinger for more than a decade of contributions here on SFSE, for his impact and expertise ...
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Salesforce MVP Nominations 2022 - 2023
Salesforce MVP 2023 Nominations Are Open
Nominations for the Salesforce MVP Class of 2023 are now open. Feel free to nominate those who have made an exceptional contribution to the SFSE community. ...
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Approve, improve or reject question edits with significant code beautifying
Editing questions, apparently a lot of contributors improve readability of code samples, not only correcting whitespace. Their edits make use of their domain knowledge. E.g. upper and lower case in ...
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Shouldn't Stack Exchange reputation caps be reduced for upvote?
well I'm taking your time now to ask a random question just so I get reputation points allowing to upvote a solution that I just found. I still want to do this in order to show other people having ...
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I don't think this question should have been deleted
The question mentioned is not offensive or incorrect as far as I can tell and shouldn't be deleted, even if being closed was the correct action (although even that seems wrong to me).
http://...
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Who's speaking at / attending Dreamforce this year?
I have a talk on the agenda for the first time in a while so I'll be in attendance this year. Who else is going or presenting? Hoping to see some SFSE faces!
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Trailhead Links on our SFSE profiles?
Hi Stack Exchange Admins!
I am wondering if we can configure custom links to add to our profiles?
I know not if this it possible, of course.
But it might be cool to be able to link out to our active ...
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Reversing OP's destructive edits
I just read a new user question in which the user asked a good question (good description of issue) but included no code. When asked in a comment, they added code. An answer was added as a comment, ...
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Rectangle displayed only on Outlook email [closed]
We are developing an email which is displayed properly on all the clients browsers. For Outlook we are using ghost tables as here:
<!--[if mso]>
<table width="100%" valign="...
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Why are close votes not allowed on bounties?
Why are close votes not allowed on bounties (at the least for duplicate questions)? Is this just by design or is there a specific reason behind this?
For example, take a look at this bounty [there is/...
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Canonical Q&A for Trailhead Module & SuperBadge Challenge related queries
What are your thoughts on creating a canonical question & answer for all queries related to Trailhead Module challenges or Superbadge challenges?
Questions related to superbadge challenges are ...
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Prompting the OP to upvote on an idea on Salesforce IdeaExchange
Is asking the OP to consider upvoting an idea in Salesforce Idea Exchange (provided the idea is relevant to the feature the OP is looking for) an acceptable comment? For example, see comment in this ...
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We are not Reddit or Stack Overflow
I've done a lot of First Question reviews since a got my 500 rep around the end of 2021. In the past few (plus or minus) weeks I have noticed a much higher than usual rate of anonymous downvotes on ...
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Could anybody add a new tag for design system react?
The design-system-react repo suggests posting support questions with the tag design-system-react.
I can't find this tag. Could someone with sufficient reputation please add this tag?
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Redundant tag for Marketing Cloud
I have found several questions tagged with [salesforce-sfmc], which should have been tagged with [marketing-cloud]. Can you please merge these two? Thanks!
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Automatically flag answers which contain a specific link?
I have seen so many "answers" in the past year or so that come from newly created users and which are just links to the BOFC app. Answers like this one from this user.
I don't know if these ...
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Tag Synonyms: [email-to-case] and [email2case]
Can we create a synonym link between [email-to-case] (125 questions) and [email2case] (303 questions)? I lack the 5 answer points in either tag to use the official suggestion mechanism, but it seems ...
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What should we do about the [help] tag?
We seem to have a new problem tag that newbies are throwing on a high percentage of posts: help. It's decreasing the signal-to-noise ratio, and I find it annoying, but I'm not sure how to best handle ...
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Should we encourage Salesforce employees to call out that fact in their profile?
Somewhat similar in scope as Can we have verified Salesforce employees? though that was asking for community-assignable flair (which Stackexchange doesn't offer at time of writing).
I came across this ...
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Tags and replacement of terminology
As you all know, Salesforce does sometimes change terminology on us. Frequently tags on the site are named after their terminology and thus really need to be updated to the new terminology.
A good ...
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Old new contributor?
Out of curiosity, nothing urgent. I have spotted, over last couple of months, few poor quality questions from same user, having an alias quite easy to remember. I seem to remember having answered few ...
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Stay Safe Ukrainian Community Members - Reach out for help if needed
I know we have many Ukrainians that participate on this forum, if you are currently within any of the areas affected by the ongoing violence, I hope you are safe.
@Mariia Illarionova
@Oleksandr ...
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Salesforce Hot Network Question
Has at any time a question on Salesforce Stack Exchange made it into the list of Hot Network Questions?
I very much doubt it - but if so, what question was this?
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Anyone else finding the refreshed UX a bad experience on mobile
Accessing the question list I now see a huge header and 2 questions, where the votes and answer counts are (for me) less obvious and visible and where tags are more prominent.
The previous arrangement ...
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Shout out to Derek F
Not exactly a question but I continue to be astonished by the amount of patience, detail, empathy, and instruction Derek F gives in his answers to relative newbie Apex developers
Here's an example but ...
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Posting a Q&A on how to use MFA for shared accounts that "perhaps" violates SFDC TOS
I'm ambivalent about this one and seek guidance:
Let's say you have some service account user seats in your org and multiple people need to occasionally login to these. Let's further say that Login As ...
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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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Happy 2022 Everyone!
Last year was not an easy one, specially considering the circumstances revolving around Covid, and who knows what awaits us for this upcoming year.
The community keeps growing, questions keep coming, ...
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