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2020 has come! But… oops, where did the time go? It’s already March! Belated as it is, it’s time for a refresh of Community Promotion Ads! What are Community Promotion Ads? Community Promotion Ads ...

Stack Exchange has announced that a new question-asking interface is going to roll out to the network on Tuesday. This experience adds some additional guidance to asking questions, particularly for ...

For transparency and to invite review, I just updated the community wiki answer for the question Lightning Web Components - Benefits and Support. Main changes: Verified the "supported" versus "...

I proposed an edit for this answer on the grounds that the code doesn't run: How to query the count of child records in soql Code in original answer: Select count(Id) totalChilds, Account__c ...

Inspired by a What should we do with out-of-date answers question I wanted to ask what should be done with questions which are out-of-date? 2 years ago I asked a question which eventually has been ...

So @sfdcfox's answer here got flagged because it's not longer accurate: Can you select what release your scratch orgs are on Part of me thinks I should just delete it, so that the correct ...

Might've gotten a bit ahead of myself on my previous meta. It'd be helpful to have some guidelines to determine if a given question is or is not a code-review question. The intent here is to start ...

The most recent discussion we had on code review questions was Appropriate Code Review Posts, and the general feel I got from that was "Code review is generally off-topic here, and there is codereview....

Recently I've started reviewing the First Posts queue and very often there's the same thing to say to a new user which is asking to take a tour, read how to ask a question etc. So one time I saw a ...

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, ...

100k, 200k and now 300k. Such an amazing feat. Heartily congrats Brian and thanks for your amazing help in making SFSE a great success. I can't count how many times you have helped me in reaching a ...

Today (18th Dec 2019), I've noticed that a 2-year old question was modified by a non-moderator user but I could not clearly see what was actually edited. From home, the question is indicated to have ...

This is another follow up to Let's talk about closure. Our on topic Help page has not been substantively revised in many years. As the one (I believe) Help page that we have the ability to write, it'...

I edited a answer when i was not logged with my credetials. There's any way to get credit for it? Thanks in advance.

This is a follow-up to Let's talk about closure to talk specifically about closure reasons and messaging. (This topic was previously discussed here). Over the last 90 days, we’ve closed 17.5% of ...

We've had rumblings in a few quarters over the last few months that point to dissatisfaction in a slice of the community that seems significant enough to me to say "let's get it out here". That ...

Public service announcement: The MVP nominations are open from now until December 9th, 2019. Feel free to nominate those who have made an exceptional contribution to the SFSE community. That could ...

Today, I am suddenly seeing shaded questions as below: What does that mean? Its not voted question/answered question/etc ? (not able to understand - its just random)

I am not active member of salesforce but active spam hunter. One of our bot caught this question which draw my attention. Long title with out space (In this case it's gibberish) heading out of design ...

This particular user, account created today, was set up solely to spam (in my opinion at least). Their one and only post so far was already deleted by our moderator(s), but links remain on their ...

Last year we had a small meetup for our SFSE Dreamforce Attendees, this is something that has also been organized in the past couple of years as well. Any community members assisting Dreamforce this ...

Matt Lacey mentioned about We're the 25th most visited site on the network This made me curious to run a query regarding the number of posts made yearly. And to my surpise, it looks like that ...

I know this isn't a question, and barely a discussion topic, but I'd like to call out that we're the #25 site in terms of traffic on the network, sitting at 60k visits per day. When it comes to ...

Congrats Keith C with 100k reputation! I can say personally, that I have found a lot of solutions of my sf problems from Keith's answers! Thanks for your dedication!

I ask this because I have just noticed a question was deleted by a moderator and it was my first time seeing this. Usually the question would be put 'On Hold' or 'Closed.' Take these two examples: A ...

Could someone create a "Direct Messaging" tag? This would be different from "Private Messaging" (although there isn't one of these either.) There is very little documentation by Salesforce around ...

I follow StackSalesforce on Twitter religiously, but since last few days haven't seen any of the SFSE tweets, is the Integration broken? The last tweet was on May 16 2019.

What is the point of having a question and answer forum if people cannot ask questions without them being frozen for no good reason by contributors clearly gaming the system rather than actually ...

I just received the Tumbleweed after two months while its description says: Asked a question with zero score, no answers, no comments, and low views for a week. I suppose that is probably is due ...

As part of suggested edits queue i got an answer to this question which is more than 2 years old and has an accepted answer. What do we do in these cases to - accept or reject?

I've noticed a lot of people are still(newer people) using the Stack Overflow site to ask salesforce questions and often times they go unanswered. Is there anything that can be done to make this ...

I recently asked if an automation can be implemented which would add certain tags if other specific tags have been set. Since it is not possible to implement I have a different approach i would like ...

Recently I started to edit the tags of questions because they often miss crucial parts like [marketing-cloud]. Is there an option to set these kind of attributes automated? Some examples where you ...

Salesforce's third 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 ...

Congratulations are in order from the community =) Keep up the good work!

Last time that I went to Dreamforce was 2017 and I totally missed that there was a SFSE meetup. Anyway I'm coming back to town for TDX 2019. Might there be enough interest to do something at TDX?

In a few hours our 2019 moderator election will conclude a new moderator to join the team, and I will step aside. It's been 4.5 years since I was elected and a lot has happened since then. We've ...

Recently, I noticed that some post from deleted users remain active on the site, I was wondering if some should be cleaned up. Most notably those who are clearly duplicate questions (or questions that ...

There is this user who looks like he has been around for the last couple of years, and in last few days he has been constantly producing low-quality answers, which are being downvoted by all. The ...

If a moderators isn't very active, or doesn't contribute as expected, can they be replaced/removed/demoted?

I wonder why do we have only four candidates for moderator election? Did I miss the time where we had more candidates? Did every influencing contributors who wanted to be moderator win the previous ...

Of all the candidates with a reasonably guess-able gender, only one was a woman. Of the finalists, none are. Why is that? It feels like it's important to recognize what barriers there are to having ...

The question lightning:navigation to record edit page not working when there is an record update before it is tagged javascript but syntax highlighting was not applied to the code block. I suggested ...

If you're voting to close, commenting on a question, or otherwise interacting with it, do you remember to check the tags? Improperly tagged questions won't badge hammer correctly, won't be viewed by ...

In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...

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,...

Salesforce is scheduled for an election next week, March 18th.In connection with that, we will be holding a Q&A with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to ...

So, I'm getting pretty close to obtaining the gold apex badge. I've read that gold badges ~= moderator for that tag, in that a vote to close by a gold badger means that question is closed. The ...

How do you compare Salesforce Stack Exchange vs Official Salesforce Developer Forum? Is stackexchange more for people who were previously developers in other areas (i.e. Java) while the official ...

Based on comments from the last Post I opened, Wondering if we should start collaborating on creating those canonical posts. I don't know if someone would like to propose a collaboration tool (...