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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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Must one never ask about mtgox's outages?

Your question was closed as being too localized. A good rule of thumb for detirmining whether a question is too localized is to ask yourself, "Who would be interested in this question in 6 months?" I …
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Should we tolerate questions about buying illegal drugs or similar stuff?

I think you guys are looking too hard at the legal angle. Hell, Amazon sells a book called "Practical LSD Manufacture". StackExchange is unlikely to get a call from the US government unless it links t …
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Are questions about websites central to the community on topic?

There are a huge number of questions that could be asked about external websites, most of which have support contacts or a discussion area. …
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Are we willing to embrace other cryptocurrencies?

I've been thinking about this for a couple of days. I don't entirely disagree with Murch, but there are a couple of points I'd like to address. Why don't we have more [altcoin] questions? Critical …
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Attention needed on comment of old question

It depends on what kind of attention you're trying to draw. If you're trying to draw moderator attention to it (e.g. because you want it deleted) then you should flag it as "other (needs diamond atten …
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Why does BitcoinSE attract particularly low quality posts?

I think it's worth noting that all three of those things were posts bumped during the Great Retagging. There's a correlation between a question being poorly tagged, and a question being poorly researc …
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Is there a problem with stackexchange community?

Reading through stackexchange proposal, I start to get a feeling that many experts do believe, ethereum is a blockchain or maybe that bitcoin is blockchain. Now my newbie :) question to the experts: …
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Why do you answer questions on the Bitcoin Stack Exchange?

The problem you're having lies at the intersection of four different problems: complexity, empathy, length, and teaching. Complexity: In Bitcoin, new concepts build on previous concepts. If each con …
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"Business" or "businesses"

Keep business, because that's the most obvious tag. Either way, though, merge the services tag with it.
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tag "alternatives" losing focus

Arguments in favor of removing it: As a tag, it's pretty vague. It's sort of like tagging your questions with 'not-bitcoin'. If it's supposed to go on all non-bitcoin questions, then that's not bein …
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How should we handle outdated answers to questions?

I say we make a list - not only of answers that have changed, but answers that will change. I'll start: How much would it cost for a government to undermine Bitcoins? How much would it cost to exec …
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Should bitcoin-qt and standard-client be synonymous?

Done. Vote here.
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Let's get critical: Feb 2015 Site Self-Evaluation

Which bitcoin script forms should be detected when tracking wallet balance? I might be biased, but I think this is pretty good :). The only non-SE source I can find that touches on this is http://www. …
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Tag for "time between blocks": Block-Interval or Block-Solution-Time?

difficulty and confirmations have a different focus for me, speed is completely unfocussed and should be removed altogether. I agree. Which one should we use then: block-interval, block-solut …
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Why is Bitcoin SE still in beta?

There are a few reasons for that, but the #1 thing I want to emphasize is this: 90 days is a minimum length. Most sites will take much longer. Longer-running betas are not in some sort of failure mod …
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