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Disappointed in StackExchange management
We are posting this to add our names to the chorus of unhappy moderators across the Stack Exchange network about the sacking of Monica Cellio. If you haven’t already come across the controversy, there’...
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Have there been any "Is this a scam?" questions that the answer was "No"?
I think most here would agree that whenever someone asks Is this a scam, the answer is almost certainly, Yes, this is a scam.
Have there been any instances of questions like these where the answer ...
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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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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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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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Design for Personal Finance & Money
My name is Lucian and, together with the Stack Exchange team, I will be in charge of creating the new design for the Personal Finance & Money site, as it graduates from the beta phase. While the ...
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Should we have canonical scam questions?
We have a lot of questions asking "is this a scam", and in most cases the situation and the answer are the same. Someone giving me free money and:
Asking me to pass some of it some someone else;
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How do we get rid of the flood of sugar daddy questions?
There are too many sugar daddy questions and as far as I can tell, they are all the same. There are ten questions with the sugar daddy tag on the current first page. This is not only ridiculous, but ...
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What are the criteria for getting Money.SE out of "perpetual beta?"
The Area 51 status for Money.SE reads thusly:
This site will remain in beta indefinitely so it can grow; we will continue to evaluate its site statistics and overall health.
Why the concern with ...
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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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Should we remove the "& Money" part from the site name and logo, to prevent repeated confusion about what is on-topic?
Once again there is a debate with a new user going on about a closed question appealing to the fact that the site name is Personal Finance & Money.
Typical exchange:
High Rep user: Closing your ...
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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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What to do with X dollars?
Occasionally I see questions that are basically "I have X money. What do I do with it". A list could be compiled, but I feel it to not be necessary.
There are several ways to interpret these ...
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The Intent and Purpose of Comments
Stack exchange is a Q&A site, unlike other message boards members may be familiar with. The Tour offers this simple statement of when to use comments:
Use comments to ask for more information ...
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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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Can we support Latex formulas on this site?
There are some SE sites that have already supported Latex formulas, but this site hasn't. Can we provide the support here?
For example, I would like to have the Latex formulas rendered in this post.
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Guidelines for asking for/editing country tags in questions from new users
Information on the location of the question asker (country tag) is important for answering many questions on this site. And, unfortunately, needing to continuously ask new users for their location ...
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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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Are questions about personal finance from a religious framework on-topic?
We have had a couple of questions recently from users asking about personal finances from a Muslim viewpoint. Should these types of questions be on-topic? Are these types of questions different than ...
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Tag disambiguation: tag "short-selling" currently has two meanings
I've noticed the short-selling tag is being used both to refer to questions about selling stocks short in the stock market as well as the real-estate/mortgage concept of selling a property for a value ...
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Accounting Area51 proposal has been deleted
I noticed that in the help center article What topics can I ask about here?, the list of topics that are off topic includes:
Questions about accounting that are academic or have no bearing on ...
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New Design Launched
As you can see the new design just went live. Which means this site has been officially launched! Congratulations! Thank you for your valuable design feedback.
If you're still seeing the old favicons,...
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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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Clarifying the Area 51 proposal: Can some basic economics and policy questions be on-topic?
[Ganesh Sittampalam's original question]
I've voted to close this question* because it directly corresponds to this off-topic question from the area51 proposal (about economics and policy) and I ...
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Situational Anonymity
I was about to ask a question on SO PF&M when I realized that I had to disclose details that I would prefer to keep private. This wouldn't be a big deal generally but I am well known on several ...
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Site Design Celebration
It looks like the site's new design is going to launch soon maybe this week. This has been long in coming, so how are we going to celebrate?
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Can we maybe not chastize people for bad situations?
I don't come here often, so maybe it's not a widespread problem, but I've now had two almost identical comments (from the same user) rebuking me for making a poor decision months ago and asking about ...
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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 we remove our scam questions from the HNQ List?
This question is prompted by this sugar daddy question, which is the third sugar daddy question I have seen in only a few months. Sorry, but I cannot give you links to the others because it would ...
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What does this site gain by coming out of beta?
There are several questions asking when this site will come out of beta. This seems to be a concern for several users.
Please excuse my ignorance but what does this site gain by coming out of beta? ...
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Should answers be left in the comments?
Sometimes users leave comments on questions that are essentially a short answer to the question. What is wrong with answering a question in the comment section? Is it ever appropriate to leave an ...
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WOOHOO! Seven Hundred Days in Beta!
This is getting to be a bit of a dubious distinction.
A quick observation as we cross this milestone:
Hordes of qualified people aren't going to be flocking to this site to answer questions, ...
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How can we help better people with no financial literacy?
TL;DR I would like to see this site start to become a better and more visible resource for people at the very beginning of the learning curve on financial literacy. Any ideas on how to achieve this?
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User with a flood of questions
https://money.stackexchange.com/users/40527/melissa-yue-wallace?tab=questions
This user has asked 12 questions about income tax in Canada in the last 16 hours or so. Most of them are referencing ...
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SE needs a "Business Finance and Accounting" community
PFM's rules explicitly forbid business accounting questions:
Please note that the following subjects are considered off-topic here:
Questions about accounting that are academic or have no bearing on ...
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What makes an “explain this” question appropriate for this site?
We have recently seen a significant number of questions that contain significant quotes from external sources and often very little other content. Some of these were mentioned a while ago and it wasn'...
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Could we create a common answer to all those "is this a scam?" questions?
It seems that almost every week a new question pops up and ends up on the hot network questions list, all of them being basically
Someone I recently met online wants to send me free money. All I ...
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Issue with new design: Visited links are nearly indistinguishable in color from regular text
I love the new site design, but to me the links, particularly visited ones, are not different enough in color from regular text. In the example below the text 'this post' is a visited link:
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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 ...
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Are minor grammar edits desirable?
I'm going to nitpick. A recent edit of a single word ("it's" to "its") brought this one to mind.
The FAQ states:
Edits are expected to be substantial and to leave the post better than
you found ...
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What Bitcoin questions should be on- and off-topic here at Personal Finance & Money?
A couple of years ago, the following question was asked here: Is this a good place to ask and answer questions about BitCoin? At the time, there was no Bitcoin Stack Exchange, but one has existed ...
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What to do with all the Macroeconomics questions?
Seems like there have been a lot of macro-economics questions lately, for example:
Country Budget Cuts
Does the fractional reserve banking system necessitate indefinite and exponential economic ...
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Should *all* questions that *depend-on* a country include a country tag?
I just asked this question:
united states - How can I cash or deposit a check made out to my minor child? - Personal Finance & Money Stack Exchange
A user with many more points than I added the ...
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Announcement: Retiring my role as a pro-tem moderator
I'd like to inform that, effective tomorrow, I'm retiring my role as a pro-tem moderator here at Money.
This decision wasn't easy. It's been a great four years founding and helping grow this ...
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Why won't the mods do anything about the user I don't like?
I am having a problem with a user; why don't the mods take care of that person and put them in their place?
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Is it required for a question to apply personally to the asker in order to be considered on-topic?
Lately, I've seen a comment appearing on questions that are accused of being off-topic. The comments will say something to the effect of "This situation does not apply to the OP, so the question is ...
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Questions that ask "is this a good idea"
I see there's another current meta question about the recent car buying questions, but I have a specific point I felt needed to be addressed. Here's the current question that triggered me into asking ...
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Will the regional flags on the tags be allowed on the new beta?
Previously in the Stack Exchange 1.0 version there were tags that contained flags for the regional type of questions. Considering that our community came from various regions, it was really helpful ...
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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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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 ...