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Will this site eventually be accessible in French as well? + would a certain site request be viable
Six years ago, Stack Exchange founder Joel Spolsky wrote
Our mission is to make the Internet a better place to get expert answers to your questions. Nothing about that mission says the questions ...
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Community should cause correc! Ou : Community pris en flagrant délit d'idéalisme... ;-)
[English summary: I disagree.]
Je ne suis pas du tout d'accord. Les années passées sur Stack Exchange m'ont très amplement montré qu'il y a des bonnes et des mauvaises questions, et il y a des bonnes ...
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Display which area of Francophonie a post comes from
I don't think that is necessary. Consider the following points
It is really intrusive to force users to divulge that kind of information. Which would be not only obnoxious, but would also probably ...
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Display which area of Francophonie a post comes from
I do not think the area is truly informative. Indeed, I consider myself as a native speaker, born in France from parents of (from what I know) French origin. My germanic roots are a few centuries away....
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Allow us to edit help center pages
Regarding the high number of newcomers arriving on the site and misusing the site it seems quite pressing to adapt our help pages to the specificity of the site.
We should rejoice of course to have ...
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Devrait-on avoir une bannière indiquant notre politique concernant le contenu généré par IA ?
Oui, nous devrions avoir une telle bannière ou une variante de cette bannière (voir annonce). / Yes, we should have such a banner or a variant thereof (see announcement).
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Community wiki question
This feature used to exist, and it was removed. The intended use for community wiki questions was precisely what you seem to be suggesting: things like “what's your favorite …?”, or “let's make a list ...
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Une étiquette pour le français parlé - Une bonne ou mauvaise idée?
Le mot-clé oral existe déjà :
Particularités de la communication orale (dialogue, discussion,
discours, élocution), ainsi que leur transcriptions à l'écrit.
Il faut par ailleurs noter que le site n'...
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Is it time to revise our community-specific close reasons ?
I'd like to answer this question by discussing the answers one by one.
The question How to ask for a pack of cigarettes in Québec, which has the following comment:
Please include the basic research ...
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Should the threshold for the Community♦-raised flag "20+ comments" be lowered from 20 to, for example, 10?
Yes, the lower the better.
I always wondered why there was no button available for non-moderators to move comments to chat before that threshold is reached, or better to have a button that allows ...
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Devrait-on avoir une bannière indiquant notre politique concernant le contenu généré par IA ?
Non, nous ne devrions pas avoir une telle bannière ou une variante de cette bannière (voir annonce). / No, we should not have such a banner or a variant thereof (see announcement).
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Should the threshold for the Community♦-raised flag "20+ comments" be lowered from 20 to, for example, 10?
Yes & no. It depends what the discussion is about. Some discussions are useful, they add to the post and help to improve the Q and the A. So automation might hinder making a point around an issue. ...
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HTML style mark-down language so that people can color English words a different color than French words
I really don't see the point of such a request. Linguists use "quotation marks" / « guillemets » or italics. Adding more HTML tags would only cause pages to upload more slowly. Waste of time ...
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