Unanswered Questions
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Congratulations! Emacs is graduating!
It's a big day. You've been cleared for graduation by the Stack Exchange Community Team! Emacs met our threshold for graduation-worthy sites and after a review, the Community Team determined that you'...
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I am resigning as a moderator
I am stepping down as a moderator, and you deserve to know why. I cannot condone actions that the company has recently taken (behind close doors, although I expect more will become public soon).
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I'm resigning from moderating on Stack Exchange
Considering (not so) recent events that have taken place on Stack Exchange, along with how they're handled (boilerplate response from staff), I am resigning. Things that have happened here make me not ...
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Emacs — Top User Swag!
We want to congratulate and thank everyone that helped this site and community grow healthily into what they are today!
If you can find your name among the top 72 users in the first two pages here, ...
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Moderator Pro Tem Announcement
Throughout the beta, we need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we select a few members from each community ...
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Tune syntax highlighting based on a per-site content-based rule
Stack Exchange's syntax highlighting engine (which is based on Google Prettify) has some heuristics to choose between programming languages when highlighting a block of code. That doesn't work so well ...
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Why haven't you nominated yourself to be moderator yet?
We need candidates!
Hey team. We have a moderator election starting on Monday, October 1. As of Sunday, September 30, we have 0 (that's zero) candidates. Get with it and nominate yourself.
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PSA: please flag spam as spam
Emacs is not a topic where many people have something to sell. So we don't get topical spam on this site. But as with any website that accepts external contributions, we get generic spam.
When you ...
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Do we take questions on "helper" programs?
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,
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Announcing an election for April 2021
Summary: Emacs Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for an election on April 26 to bring in two more moderators.
The timeline:
Starting on April 19, the Community Team will post a question ...
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Should the "How to Ask" box on the "Ask question" form include some kind of "show the actual error message" recommendation?
It would be helpful if there was a recommendation along the lines of "if you are experiencing an error, please copy and paste the full error message into your question" (along with a link to a more ...
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Are questions about other Emacs-like editors on-topic?
I'm currently investigating in edwin, an Emacs-like editor bundled with MIT Scheme. The very moment I've tried to start it up, I've found an interesting question for the Stackexchange, but am not ...
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2018: a year in moderation
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in that we amortize the overall moderation cost ...
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Vote in the 2018 moderator election!
We have an election for a new moderator going on right now.
Check out the candidates' answers to the Q&A, and then go vote!
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2018 Potential Moderator Election Community Interest Check
Since the last election, the Community Team's noticed that the bulk of the flag handling's been mostly done by two moderators.
We have systems in place to remove inactive moderators, but since we ...
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