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Time to expand the scope to include other/all Office 365 services?

So, there have been an increasing number of questions around the MS Graph API, MS Teams, OneDrive, etc. that are not specifically centered around SharePoint. In most cases, it appears that other users ...
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How to deal with possible fake votes?

I saw a question just being added to the site when refreshing the newest actions at the landing page of SP.SE. Once I opened the question, it immediately had 3 votes although the question had been ...
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Providing solutions from my blog

Can I answer a question by providing link to my own blog, if it answers the question properly? Is it wrong? Will I be violating any rules of this forum?
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External links should open in a new tab/window

I believe it's good practice to open links to other sites, images and similiar in a new tab. When I'm browsing answers at this site, I want to keep the context when I'm looking at external links. I ...
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When should we allow questions about products that don't belong to a SharePoint SKU?

In what circumstances (if at all) should we allow questions about products that either run on the SharePoint platform or integrate with SharePoint in some way, but aren't a SharePoint SKU? List of ...
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What should be done about content with poor spelling, grammar or formatting?

We receive a lot of questions from many different types of users. Fairly frequently, we get questions with poor spelling, grammar or formatting. We've been editing all questions for the user which ...
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What SharePoint SKUs are on-topic here?

I've noticed confusion around tagging the various SharePoint products which led me to think about what's on topic here. For example, just listing recent versions: SharePoint Foundation 2010 ...
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How should we handle links to third-party products?

We can pat ourselves on the back for being popular enough to attract spammers. How should we define spam and what should we do about it?
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How should we handle poll / "the best" / resource list style questions?

We have a question on the site: "What is the best tool for reading ULS logs?". These sorts of questions can be very useful because they provide a great list of resources recommended by our community. ...
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