Questions tagged [off-topic]
The off-topic tag has no usage guidance.
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Are Ordinals and Inscriptions on-topic?
In the past, there was broad support for narrowing the topic of Bitcoin SE to “technologies that are applicable to supporting the bitcoin currency, in the past, present, or future”.
While it seems ...
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When is a question a request for service reviews?
One of our site's closing reason reads:
Questions seeking product or service reviews are off-topic because
they tend to attract subjective, low-quality, and spam answers. On
the other hand, offerings ...
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How should now off-topic questions that were recently edited be treated?
I just came across a proposed edit in the suggested edits review queue, on an answer to an old question that is now off-topic (its about litecoin).
The edit is useful (it updates the answer to include ...
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How should we deal with "Sybil"?
For over a year now, we have seen an individual post lengthy, vociferous questions multiple times per week from ever new accounts. The idiosyncratic, entitled tone and repetitive lines of inquiry of &...
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Is this question (about blockchain generally) on topic?
I found What can blockchain do that normal databases systems won't?. The text of the question asks about blockchain advantages and real life use cases outside of cryptocurrencies.
I would like the ...
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Progress tracker of implementing the scope change
On-topic help text -- updated
Introductory paragraph of Tour -- updated
Asks and Don't Asks of Tour -- updated
Off-topic close-reasons -- updated
Update altcoin tag descriptions -- in progress
Close ...
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Proposed Timeline for Scope Change
Following up from the proposal to change the Bitcoin stackexchange's scope and the proposed help center text, we propose that the scope change occur on Monday July 1st.
This scope change will result ...
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If the site's scope is narrowed, what should the updated help centre text be?
Background
There is a proposal to narrow the scope of the bitcoin.stackexchange.com that has received positive feedback from a large majority of users that have engaged with it.
The vote count on the ...
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Proposal: Narrow topic of Bitcoin.Stackexchange to questions applicable to Bitcoin
Bitcoin.stackexchange.com (Bitcoin.SE) appears to have been misnamed as the scope of "allowed topics" is much wider than Bitcoin. Originally, in Area51, the proposal was for only Bitcoin, but then it ...
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Questions about the Bitcoin market are off-topic here, right?
Looking here
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic
and here
Are questions about trading on-topic?
I conclude that questions about the Bitcoin market are off-topic here, right? I'm not ...
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Are questions about trading on-topic?
I've noticed some trading questions that ask about topics that cannot be closed as off-topic because they are about bitcoin, but where the real question is only incidentally related to bitcoin and can ...
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As of 2017, are altcoin-specific questions off-topic?
To be clear, I am referring to questions which have nothing to do with Bitcoin like this:
What does one need to do to earn Decred through PoS?
Considering the author (@highly-irregular) has been ...
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Usage of the off-topic reason "customer relationship"
I feel like the customer relationship close reason is perhaps getting a bit overused lately.
IIRC, it was originally meant for questions e.g. about customers not receiving a deposit on an account or ...
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Influx of Trezor questions
TL;DR:
Please mark Trezor's "customer support" questions as off-topic. We don't care whether packages have been sent, how to apply for a refund or whom to talk to regarding faulty hardware.
Please ...
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Off-topic posts and suggesting an alternative
Regarding cdecker's comment at https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/13413/how-to-change-uri-handler-from-bitcoin-qt-to-electrum#comment17221_13413
I don't mean to aim any criticism at cdecker,...
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Aren't recommendation questions off-topic?
I've recently joined this site due to my growing interest in Bitcoins, as well as to fight the flood of spam that's been coming in.
In the meantime, I've been going through old questions, and came ...
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Are questions that would function as peer reviews in scope of this SE?
Say someone wanted to know what is the opinion of the Bitcoin community on "On Bitcoin and Red Balloons" - whether what Microsoft has written about Bitcoin is accurate, or did they make some errors on ...
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Can we have question migration to other stack exchanges?
I would like to be able to vote to close a question to Crypto SE or Money SE.
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Questionable Threads - Are these on-or off topic?
Post questionable threads here, using one reply per thread. No need to vote on each one (as then the people that reported the thread get down voted), but please add comments to each thread reasoning ...
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