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Why Was My Question Closed After Being Migrated from Stack Exchange Law to Here
Yesterday, I asked a question on Personal Finance & Money, but it was closed because it was off-topic. Then, I decided to post the same question on Stack Exchange Law, where it was migrated back ...
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Can't Answer on Tor Browser
It's not possible to answer a question on this site using Tor Browser.
I'm trying to write an answer to my question, but when I click the Answer Your Question button, I get a small popup modal that ...
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Merge 5 tags? shares, stocks, stock-analysis, stock-exchanges, stock-markets
Which of these 5 tags can be merged? Which differ, and how?
shares stocks stock-analysis stock-exchanges stock-markets
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what makes you think money isn't a part of the economy? [duplicate]
I created a question a few minutes ago about how J.P. Morgan funded the American economy, but someone says: it's off-topic. The reason this question was asked here is because it's says: Money at the ...
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How to handle an angry mob?
I dared to raise a suggestion that this answer doesn't really answer the question. The question was about installment sales using credit cards, and the answer was lecturing the OP that credit cards ...
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How do we track recurrent bigotry and eliminate it?
Man oh man, that feeling of deja vu.
Two of us read a question, particularly not certain keywords but different ones, and write different answers. Fine enough. But then, the other guy complains, ...
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How do you reach this meta page from the main page?
I don't see any links to here from the main Money page.
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How to get rid of cookie acceptance pop-up without accepting the cookies?
It's really obtrusive and is totalitarian to have taking up half the page.
Do better!
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Question was downvoted - is it appropriate for this venue?
Recently, the following question of mine was downvoted:
How much financial damage do people in the United States yearly incur because birds poo on their cars?
I wonder whether (a) the question is ...
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I will be joining the moderator strike [edit - now over]
Edit: following an agreement being reached between the company and community representatives, I am no longer striking.
Following the announcement of a new policy making it very difficult to moderate ...
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Just for reference: open-ended but answerable question?
Just wondering since while we already have this information it's somewhat scattered among near-duplicates: If someone asked "What are good ways to recognize that someone is trying to scam me"...
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Are Questions about corporate accounting on topic?
Part of personal finance is investing. Part of investing is picking stocks. To pick stocks, you need to understand accounting. As such, are questions like:
What does EPS (earnings per share) mean?
on ...
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Why was this answer deleted?
This answer on the question What rate do non-competitive bids get at Treasury bond auctions? was deleted. Why?
The only comment left by one of the delete voters is:
You're seriously quoting random ...
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Is there a way to add an individual to our block list?
There are times when I start losing patience with an individual and the best thing for both of us and for the general conversation is if I don't respond to them -- and ideally if I don't even see what ...
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New question is a duplicate of an old question, someone answers it and closes the old question. Is that the common practice here?
Why is the cost basis reported by a broker on RSUs 0 USD? (posted 4 years ago), was closed by 1 user as a duplicate of What is the law/regulation which prohibits brokers from reporting basis on RSUs? (...
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Merge [restricted-stock] and [rsu]
The tags restricted-stock and rsu seem synonymous. Let's merge them?
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Tag wikis and plagiarism
This is a reminder that the standard StackExchange rules on plagiarism apply to tag wikis and tag wiki excerpts.
Please do not copy them from other web pages, even if they are short. As well as being ...
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Should we be referring more questions to https://quant.stackexchange.com
I have no idea where people draw the line, but many of the recent questions about "how do I calculate this investment number" strike me as being a better fit there than here, since they're ...
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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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Use of chatGPT and other AI generators is banned
Use of text generated by ChatGPT or other AI generation tools is banned for now.
For now, the use of ChatGPT or other AI generation tools to create posts here on Personal Finance & Money is not ...
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Should chatGPT created answers be banned on this site?
I recently noticed that a user posted a number of ChatGPT generated answers. Such answers are often vague and fail to answer the questions that were asked (and they don’t mention the use of ChatGPT).
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What changed on my question by meta
Active page shows my question as edited, but I could not find what actually the Bot changed. How I could know, I was the author of the question.
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Why was my comment deleted, for this question about "where does the Value of Money go"?
Specifically, this question on Value of Money. I put a comment on the Question itself (two, actually, one in response to another person). All three comments are gone - any reason why? Alternately, is ...
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So why was this downvoted 4 times in 12 views?
The way this question is worded is exactly how law.SE would require it: In the hypothetical, with a hypothetical name, typically Bob.
This covers your asses from giving financial advice, so what’s the ...
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Should the umbrella tag be renamed?
We have car-insurance, home-insurance and insurance (and many more) but the tag for umbrella insurance is currently named umbrella.
Wouldn't it be more consistent if this tag was called umbrella-...
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Are portfolio optimization questions appropriate for this site?
My portfolio optimization question was closed for being “opinion based”.
It’s not opinion based and so I’m wondering if maybe people think this type of question is just not appropriate for this site?
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Scam questions and "if you have to ask" comments
We get a fair number of questions about scams, and one of the things that's inevitable is that, in the first few comments, one of them is some variation of:
If you have to ask, it's a scam.
This ...
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Where can I ask suggestions for a stock tracking app?
As per title, I'm looking for an iOS app that can track a set (technical name is portfolio?) of stocks:
give me the value of each stock in real time (this is something even the barebones Stocks app ...
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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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Are opinion based questions and answers allowed as of December 2021?
I'm a bit baffled by an exchange I've had with the moderators of this exchange. I flagged an answer as inappropriate for the site based on the Help Center article "How To Answer". The ...
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rename tag [mac-osx] to [macOS] in alignment with the official name from Apple
Please rename tag [mac-osx] to [macOS] in alignment with the official name. It seems I don't have the permissions for that action.
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How should I modify this question?
What service should I use to incorporate in seyschelles?
Basically the problems is as said. And I just want to know if there is a reputable service that I can use.
It seems that prices to incorporate ...
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"ethical-investing" and "esg-investing" tags
It seems that ethical-investing should be merged with esg-investing, since they appear to be the same thing. However, I am not sure about this because I am not too familiar with the field of ethical ...
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Should [bitcoin] be a synonym of [cryptocurrency]?
We have tags for cryptocurrency and bitcoin. Presumably, the bitcoin tag would be used for questions that are specific to Bitcoin only, but not to any other cryptocurrency. I understand that Bitcoin ...
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Regarding Web application recommendation
Is it on-topic here on in the main site to request for web application meeting a certain criteria?
Example question:
Web application that allows one to search for {country} stocks based on minimum ...
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Why was this question about student loan payments removed from the HNQ?
Earlier today, the question Taking college classes to avoid student loan payments indefinitely was manually removed from the Hot Network Questions list by a mod.
Why was this done?
What criteria do ...
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Transparency note: question about existence of "online only sugar daddies" deleted
We had a question about whether "online only sugar daddies" exist and how to avoid getting scammed. It got a few answers one of which got 3 upvotes and the rest either 0 or 1.
The OP and one ...
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Are judgments appropriate?
Regarding https://money.stackexchange.com/a/142559/34078
Having reviewed the edit history, answer author DJClayworth start off his answer by making a rather highly charged statement. His very next ...
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Edit Conflict on my answer locked with a version I don't want [duplicate]
So my answer to this question got edited in a way that I didn't intend, and as normal I rolled it back. The edit got repeated, so I rolled it back again and was about to point out to the offender that ...
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Moderators are the number 1 reason I quit using SE - tell me different
Mom made me cosign a car with her because her credit is bad and now the account has gotten charged off
I write an answer, gets a few upvotes, then boom.
GS - Apologise to Monica comes in edits my ...
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How to indicate that credit score related questions need a location tag?
There have been several discussions over the years about requiring all posts to have a location tag, requiring all new users to specify their location in their profile, providing a prompt for a ...
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Ambiguity: "applications" tag
applications could refer to software apps or to formal requests for something (e.g. applying for a credit card, applying for a loan, etc.).
At the moment, there are only 23 questions tagged with ...
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Why was the question “Why does the IRS require US taxpayers to report dividend income per country” closed as opinion-based?
Why was the question “Why does the IRS require US taxpayers to report dividend income per country” closed as opinion-based?
The existing answer demonstrates that there exists a very much objective ...
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Gold badge super-close with United States tag
I noticed today that I can gold-badge close as duplicate united-states questions, which is, well, most of our questions. I'm not sure that's ideal; while certainly there are times where I can ...
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What should we do about the Form 1099 tags?
As I discussed in an answer to another meta question, Form 1099-NEC was new in 2020*, and before that, its function was combined with Form 1099-MISC.
We already have lots of questions tagged form-1099-...
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Recommending a nationality/jurisdiction tag
Educated reading:
Suggesting mandatory tags
Could a regional tag (or a new "international" tag) be made mandatory?
Suggestion: Require new users to include their country in user profile
I ...
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Why was this wash sale question closed?
Wash sale rule for me? may be a duplicate, but it doesn't strike me as needing details or clarity, especially after a few edits.
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Rename "interactive-broker" tag to "interactive-brokers"
It appears that "Interactive Broker" is a misspelling. It is supposed to be "Interactive Brokers" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_Brokers).
interactive-broker should be ...
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Help pages: Add "website recommendations" to the list of off-topic subjects
The What topics can I ask about here? help page does not explicitly mention that website recommendations are off-topic. It says that "requests for specific service provider recommendations" ...
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Bitcoin has limited its scope
Your help page for on topic questions includes: "Questions about Bitcoin (or other crypto-currencies) that have no bearing on personal finance. (Bitcoin site)."
However, the Bitcoin site has ...
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