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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What is the process for deciding whether to delete a question versus putting a question 'On Hold'
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 ...
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Why do you allow moderators to hold/close questions they cannot answer?
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 ...
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Users adding answers to old questions
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?
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Community outreach to Salesforce tags in Stack Overflow
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 ...
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Can you make a tag mandatory to set?
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 ...
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Automated tag additions
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 ...
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2019 Community Moderator Election Results
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 ...
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Congratz David Reed on your MVPship!
Congratulations are in order from the community =)
Keep up the good work!
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TrailheaDX 2019
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?
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A diamond's goodbye
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 ...
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Cleaning up duplicate posts
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 ...
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Old user producing low quality answers? What can we do?
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 ...
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Can Moderators be replaced / removed / demoted?
If a moderators isn't very active, or doesn't contribute as expected, can they be replaced/removed/demoted?
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I wonder why do we have only four candidates for moderator election?
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 ...
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Election: Demographics of moderators
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 ...
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Are you checking the tags when you read a question?
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 ...
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2019 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
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 ...
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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 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
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 ...
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Canonical-qa, badge hammers, and you!
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 ...
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When to use Salesforce Stack Exchange vs Official Salesforce Developer Forum
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 ...
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Let's Collaborate for canonical-qa's to help users
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
(...
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Long time user - suspicious activity
Spotted this user which has a high number of cast votes on the site, however, seems like IT has not really contributed to the site, except for voting and the occasional edit for gaining rep (i'm ...
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Engaging with users that show little to no effort in learning
I had posted Feeding answers to frequent posters that show little to no effort in understanding a while back and unfortuantely it did not get the traction I would have hoped for.
As of lately, there ...
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Turning downvotes into an additional opportunity for engagement [WIP]
This is a draft of a post I'm planning to make over on the main SO meta. Fleshing it out here and looking for feedback because, even though I've been here for over 3 years, being downvoted into ...
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2019 Developer Survey
The Stack Overflow 2019 developer survey is here !
Obviously, as every year, the technologies and languages proposed do not include Salesforce.
Will the Salesforce Stack Exchange community be able ...
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Community Promotion Ads — 2019
2019 is here! And with the new year, as usual, comes a new iteration of Community Promotion Ads! Let’s refresh these for the coming year :)
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion Ads ...
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Are these downvotes merited?
The answer here, appears to have been written by someone pretty new to programming:
https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/a/247572/78
The code will work, but anyone with some experience would quickly ...
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What is meant by red mark on review queue?
I can see red mark on suggested edits review queue. If I click on the queue it appears to be clear and there is nothing to review. What could be the reason? Is it a known bug?
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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, ...
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Will the component tags be re-utilized for Lightning Web Components?
As of today, on SFSE, there already exists tags viz., lightning-button, lightning:tab, etc. to name a few which are currently used in context of Lightning Components.
Now that Lightning Web ...
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Please help me fix my lwc tag synonym
I accidentally added the new lwc tag that was intended as a tag synonym for the new lightning-web-components tag to lightning-components instead.
Aargh!
Could I ask that two kind folks go and vote ...
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Lightning *Web* Components!? Another Lightning thing?
I'd like to begin a discussion about what to do with tags around lightning components now that LWC has been launched.
If you've read the blog post, you'll see that the original Aura-based components ...
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Requesting downvotes for mistaken tag synonyms
Mea culpa: I created a couple of tag synonym proposals backwards (on the synonym instead of the master). Since apparently they cannot be deleted as such, could I request some concerted downvotes on my ...
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Annual Salesforce MVP Nominations are Open - 2019
Public service announcement:
The MVP nominations are open from now until January 11th, 2019.
As per the change last year, this is now an annual process. Source
New MVP classes will be welcomed ...
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Can we do better with unit test questions? Who wants to help build canonical community wiki answers?
I want to follow up a tangent from Ralph's recent question about question quality, regarding questions about unit tests. (This has obviously been an issue for a long time).
We get a lot of unit test ...
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Salesforce updated site theme is ready for testing!
As part of implementing the new unified themes across the network, we're gradually rolling out updated site themes for each site. As of today, we have enabled your updated site theme for testing.
If ...
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Recognized by Salesforce Trailhead :-)
Say no more, if only that was the right answer :-/
to note, the correct answer is: 4 - TrailHead Help (If you wondered)
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Is it just me or has the question quality really dropped off in the past year?
It's been a while since project work has required cutting into my sfse time. Now that I've got some more free time, I was stoked to get in and make some great answers. But it seems things have changed,...
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When is the peak time for logged in users?
At what time (UTC) is the most amount of logged in user in Salesforce SE?
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DF2018 meetup group picture
Thank you everyone for attending, it was nice to meet all of you. Hope to see you again in other events!
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My Salesforce Toolkit / Components Library [closed]
I'm reposting this here, since I don't know if there's good place to share the tools and code.
I've published the first version of my component library today and I'd like to give it some recognition. ...
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Can we please stop closing questions about Heroku?
I am bringing this up as questions about Heroku are being (IMHO) prematurely closed.
This is a 'fork' of the 2012 question Are questions about heroku on or off topic?.
Here is some prior art around ...
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Congrats Adrian Larson on reaching 100K Reputation
Congrats Adrian(Apex) Larson on reaching 100K reputation. You have helped me and countless others with your selfless work. You are a star.
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SFSE DF18 Meetup Official Invite
Hi everyone please make sure to register for this eventbrite invite to help us track the attendees and stay connected.
SFSE Meetup at Dream Force 2018
I apologise for the inconvenience but would love ...
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What to do if you observe a User’s behavior?
So I came across a very obvious behavior by one of the Users of accepting and un-accepting an answer. And was wondering if anyone here has come across a similar situation and how have you addressed ...
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Getting MVP Status - What have you (MVPs) have done to get it?
I know that there is a document like https://www.salesforce.com/campaign/mvp/ which describes how you could achieve MVP status, but it lacks the part how you got the knowledge and the experience to be ...
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Changes to the reputation mechanic, is it possible?
Is it possible to modify the reputation system?
For example, up until a certain number of reputation points, users earn points for editing questions.
If modifying/adding ways to earn reputation is ...
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Salesforce Developer Wiki Retirement
Years ago, the Salesforce developer wiki was a trove of valuable technical resources but nowadays there is a good part of those 1.6K pages that is obsolete and duplicated by our documentation. As a ...
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Trailhead and Exam Preparation questions
We seem to be having a large number of questions lately on Trailhead superbadges (a new one just came out), as well as on certification exam preparation.
These topics have been discussed on Meta ...
