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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Dear Stack Exchange: A Statement and a Letter from your Moderators
Crossposted from Meta.Stackexchange
Dear Stack Exchange, Inc.,
We know you know about this already, so we'll keep this brief. The past two weeks have been rough. Lots of moderators have lost ...
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Goodbye PF&MSO!
Goodbye, Stack Overflow! It's been fun collecting 11,758 Internet points and helping start the overflow site, but I'll be leaving as part of the Monica Cellio backlash.
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Frequently Answered Questions (by topic)
Members are welcome to continue to directly edit this FAQ
Note The Help Page shows a link to this FAQ
If you missed it, please read the Code of Conduct along with the Official FAQ
Getting Started ...
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MrChrister stepping down from mod duties
Just a quick note that I am stepping down from my moderation duties. I will no longer have a diamond by my name, but I will still be reading the site and participating when I can. Even after 5 years,...
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Personal Finance & Money - Top User Swag!
As our special thanks to you for not only being extremely awesome, but also being extremely patient with us through the process of graduation, I'd like to announce the immediate availability of some ...
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2015 Community Moderator Election Results
Personal Finance & Money's 2 moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the 2 new moderators are:
Please thank them for volunteering, and share your assistance ...
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The future of Personal Finance and Money
As one of our longest-lived "beta" sites, there've been quite a few concerns raised here over the years as to the future of Personal Finance and Money. And understandably so. We've tried several times ...
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How to handle the influx of questions on cheap ways to transfer money from currency A to currency B?
There are several of these questions recently and also several older versions of these questions:
What is the cheapest way to move money from the United States to Canada?
Most cost effective way to ...
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Updates to the site
You may have noticed some updates to the design lately, they are part of a SE network-wide update to a new base css framework.
The updates allow us to:
Have sharper / more beautiful design on retina ...
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Why is asking about potato futures considered “opinion-based”?
This seems like a fairly straightforward set of questions to me: What does it mean to invest in potatoes?
The OP is asking how one can trade a potato on an exchange. His/her puzzlement stems from ...
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Moderator Pro Tem Announcement
As we enter the second week of the public beta, we desperately need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we ...
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Deleting Closed Questions
Deletion of closed questions is not happening to the extent required. Although the Review Tab for users with enough reputation is available, few of us are actually going in and deleting stuff.
I ...
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Self-Evaluation Feedback: Personal Finance and Moving Forward
Unlike most other evaluations, I actually took the time to do a deep-dive evaluation for your site. (For those questioning my fitness to do this, I'm a graduate of one of the top business schools in ...
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What topics are not allowed on Money?
What are the allowed topics for this site? According to the FAQ
Personal Finance and Money - Stack Exchange is for people who want to be financially literate, find ways to save money, minimize ...
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We're testing advertisements on Personal Finance & Money
My name is Juan M and I'm one of the community managers here on the network. You can read more about some of what I'm working on here and here.
For several years we've had advertising on technology-...
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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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2014 Community Moderator Election
The 2014 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: 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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Why did two old answers just show up in the review queue as Late Answers?
These two answers by the same user:
Is selling your house without an agent worth the hassle?
Recent college grad. Down payment on a house or car?
just showed up in the Late Answers review queue; I ...
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What is a “bounty” on a question? How can I start a bounty?
If you're new around here, or else you haven't yet seen a bounty question, you might be wondering "What is a bounty?"
Essentially, if you asked a question and it isn't getting very much attention, ...
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Why was one of my answers marked as spam with no apparent justification?
One of my answers was marked as such with no apparent justification.
This subtracted 100 points from my reputation score. Downvotes are one thing. But marking an answer as spam when it is on topic, ...
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Community, please review my question re-write on mortgages
What can I plan for to save money on my mortgage?
I reopened the question after getting the author's permission to help rewrite the question. Please feel free to comment or edit away and make it ...
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Chat for Personally Money
I've created a chat on the chat.stackexchange.com site. On other sites we've found it useful for co-ordinating and planning how to make a better site. I hope y'all will join me there!
"Show Me The ...
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2015 Community Moderator Election
The 2015 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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How often are questions deleted?
Is there some sort of warning or time period I should be aware of? I assume several questions that were just deleted had low vote counts, although I don't remember off the top of my head. I mainly ask ...
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Why was the question about the SIPC closed?
Today, this question was asked:
Is SIPC a scam or does it protect investors from fraud?
It was closed as "unclear what you're asking."
Would one of the users that closed care to comment on what ...
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Can we redo the tag 1099-b
Can we redo the tag 1099-b.
Either create this as per standard tag form-1099-b and a synonym as 1099-b
OR
Make the tag 1099-b as synonym to one of the existing generic tag form-1099
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Where to ask questions about pricing models?
A little while ago I asked this question on SuperUser:
https://superuser.com/questions/940355/how-to-create-a-data-series-for-exponential-decrease-diagram
I wanted to find a formula for pricing my ...
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Are questions about payment service terms and conditions on topic?
I received an updated terms and conditions for the automatic payments system for my Auto & Home Insurance carrier. I would like to ask a question about it, but the question really boils down to:
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How to handle a migrated question from Quant that isn't very good
I'm an irregular contributor to money, but just saw this
Why should I worry about the variance of the return?
It was migrated from Quant, and already has an accepted answer. Were it to have been ...
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Issue with using multiple country-tags and ignore lists
I've also posted an answer about this issue on the main meta.SO site, but I thought I'd get some opinions here as well.
I'm British, and don't have an interest in, nor do I feel qualified to answer, ...
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Moderator election: Shouldn't our moderators come from a variety of countries? Nominees wanted.
In reference to the moderator election, first, thank you all for your support so far. :-D
Now, to the point of my question:
Last year, when I started basicallymoney.com – (the Stack Exchange 1....
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New tag suggestion: cohabitation
How to handle shared mortgage payment if one person can't pay their share? is one of many "my boy/girlfriend and I bought a house together, and then we broke up and he/she owns 50% of the property,...
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Why was this question put on hold as off-topic? (“Has any country exempted their citizens/residents from the US citizenship-based taxation? ”)
The question Has any country exempted their citizens/residents from the US citizenship-based taxation? was put on hold as off-topic. Why?
From my understanding, this question is about personal ...
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Heads-up: StackExchange introducing mandatory arbitration clause
Just a heads-up: the new (2018) terms of service include a mandatory arbitration clause, which is generating some pushback from the community:
A new (2018) update to our Terms of Service is here
At ...
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Questions seeking product or service recommendations are off-topic, flag overused
This flag for closing questions is overused:
"Questions seeking product or service recommendations are off-topic because they tend to become obsolete quickly. Instead, describe your situation and the ...
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How long must an insurer retain records of opt-outs for, in Canada?
Why did Ganesh S delete close How long must an insurer retain records of opt-outs for, in Canada?
as off-topic because it's a very specific question of law with only peripheral relevant to ...
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Proposed New Tag Summary 'Accounting'?
The current tag states:
for questions that relate to the laws, practices, and products of accounting. Please note that questions about accounting that are academic or have no bearing on personal ...
