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Q: how much background research should we expect users to conduct before posting a question? So far, most of the questions asked on Emacs.SE have been remarkably good. Every once in a while we get o …

Let me suggest that answers be fairly discrete to make discussion possible -- feel free to provide multiple answers if you've got multiple ideas to bring up. …

I declined that flag. Here's why: the answer seems like a reasonable approach to address the problem stated in the question. It may not be the perfect answer, it may not be what you had in mind, and …

We get a steady drip of questions, usually by new users, asking how to bind keys in various modes. These questions mostly take the same basic form of "how do I change the keybindings in mode X/evil/s …

Q: How strenuously should we enforce elisp coding conventions on this site? Users (often new-ish to Emacs) sometimes post code snippets in questions or answers that clash with pretty well-established …

If the more complex solution is a generalization/improvement of the simpler solution, then put both of them in the same post and explain how the former improves on the latter. If they are qualitative …

Emacs.SE has now been in Beta for one full year (birthday cake)! For users: what outstanding issues (long-running, or recently-arising) are there that we could do to improve? For the powers that b …

Q: What do we do about questions that have been abandoned by the original poster? This question was inspired by Ergoemacs cuts selected region when I try to change buffer, a post that Community recen …

I've seen the following Question/Answer behavior on a few posts now: user A posts a question user A posts an answer to that question immediately after posting the question I'd initially thought th …

Yes, we can create a tag synonym, and it seems pretty reasonable to me. I'd lean toward making ess the master tag since that's how people who use it would probably refer to it (and thus search for it …

It seems most reasonable to me that libraries should refer only to Emacs Lisp libraries. However, we also have a package tag, and it seems to me that these could be synonyms, although they could be u …

Emacs.SX is not a humor site. It is also not a chat site. These are virtues rather than demerits. Emacs.SX is Q&A site. Rather than wax rhapsodic about what makes a good question or answer, let me …

Avoid questions that are primarily opinion-based, or that are likely to generate discussion rather than answers. These are all pretty clear guidelines. We're not a discussion forum. … We're not asking opinion-based questions, and we're not asking questions to generate discussion. …

We're an Emacs Q&A site, but there's a grey area (to me, at least) about questions on external programs that are closely related to our use of Emacs, but which are not actually Emacs. In effect, I'm …

A use pattern I've noticed on this site is as follows: A user, often a new-ish one, has a very specific question to ask, and the title reflects the specificity (e.g., "how do I bind arcane command C …