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Would StackExchange please turn on community-ads for us?
I believe we need to put in a request to have community ad functionality turned on for our CiviCRM community site, so here's my request on our behalf.
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What would be best as the first free CiviCRM ad on StackExchange? [duplicate]
StackExchange allows us to define our own ads:
The goal is to help visitors find out about the cool stuff your community is doing and help promote activities they find important. And it’s all ...
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Extend time to comment & commenting on another user's question
Extend time to comment: Any possibility to extending time to edit a comment? I find that as I am writing, a brainstorm or correction comes that needs review before updating comment. If original is ...
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How to create more tags?
I'd need a GSoC2015 tag (I've requested the students to tag it that way so it's easier to find out) and one student told me they can't do it
What's the process to create tags? Is this simply a matter ...
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Should CiviCRM version and CMS & version be required when asking a question?
On the forums most people include the CiviCRM version and the CMS and version in their forum profile.
I find this very useful even though people sometimes forget to update it and it is of limited ...
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Is there a document defining the scope of this site?
Earlier today moderator Robert Cartaino edited a post, commenting that
Feature requests for CiviCRM are off topic here.
I happen to agree with him, but my question is (especially since he is not a ...
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What's the "community wiki" checkbox used for?
I was just answering on question on the main site and noticed a tiny checkbox below the post box - [ ] community wiki. Wondering what that's used for?
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How can we use SE for the GSOC?
Would it be useful to try directing the (potential) students here to ask questions/show they can answer?
Can be either to show they know something about civi, to show they can ask questions, to ...
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How should we direct people here from forum.civicrm.org?
I have put up a notice on forum.civicrm.org saying
Have a question about CiviCRM? Get it answered quickly at our new Stack Exchange Q+A site
This forum is being deprecated for all questions and ...
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Promoting Stack Exchange at CiviCon
I realize that the CiviCon schedule is almost finalized - and there's not a single reference on the schedule to Stack Exchange. There's one last lightning talk session not claimed - does anyone want ...
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What happens to our data if we don't exit beta?
I think as a community, we're in a bit of a tight spot with regard to Stack Exchange. If we don't redirect users to this site from the existing support forums, we'll never meet the daily site visit ...
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Are stats being calculated correctly?
As of this moment, the site has been in beta for 6 days, and contains 70 questions. I'm pretty sure 70/6 is ~ 12, but not according to our stats:
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How do I put <> around domain in a url?
I like to use an obviously dummy domain name in a sample url, and put < > around it to emphasize it should be replaced. Unfortunately this is interpreted on StackExchange in a way that hides the ...
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Is code formatting working?
I posted this answer, but code formatting hasn't worked. Since it's simply (?) a matter of indenting code by four spaces and a blank line before and after, I suspect this shouldn't be a browser issue.
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How to not discourage people asking "wrong" questions?
Stack Exchange is/should be different than the CiviCRM forum. Some questions will necessarily be discouraged from the SE users, following the dynamics of SE. (In the forums practically no questions ...
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Why not use the CiviCRM emblem/icon?
I notice this SE has a generic "comment bubble" icon with "cc" in it. What's that stand for? Closed Captioning? [joke]
I think this baby would look sweet as the icon for this ...
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Where is the link from this meta back to the main CiviCRM StackExchange?
just wondering...
I cant find my way back :-(
there should be a link somewhere but I cant finde it... am I blind?
(And now apparently I have to write an essay to get past the question quality ...
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What can we do to give ourselves the best chance of getting out of Beta?
I know we have just started, but over the last few months I have read of a few sites stuck in Beta and I want to make sure we aren't one of them.
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Programmer vs. User
In the initial email we received when launching the private beta, this Q&A was included:
Q: What else?
A: Remember, you get the site you build! Ask difficult, specific questions — the kind of ...
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CiviCRM StackExchange vs. CiviCRM forum
Now that we have this lovely StackExchange site, is the forum still relevant? If so, how do I choose between using the forum and using StackExchange?
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How will we handle various mail related tags?
We just launched and we already have three:
mail
email
civimail
Civi is wide enough that these need not be duplicates, as it also handles snail mail and non-civimail mailing. This however is not so ...
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