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Is writing "Hire me to do this job" a right comment?
I don't consider fishing for clients like that as an acceptable answer or comment. As the question asker, that is extremely rude, tongue in cheek or not. You are basically coming off as condescending. ...
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Does the StackExchange community certify the active and ranked people per month and quarter as a type of encouragement?
You are in much "nailing it" (the main challenge of SharePoint StackExchange) with your questions. Sadly there seems to be no easy fix.
In short you ask two things (if interpret you correct):
Why ...
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2017 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
I'm M.Qassas. I would like to share my humble thoughts by answering the below questions.
How would you improve the voting rate on the site? Since the famous meta post Are SharePoint.SE users ...
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2017 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
I am Waqas Sarwar, I will try to answer the below questions.
How would you improve the voting rate on the site? Since the famous meta post Are SharePoint.SE users lazy voters? was asked back in ...
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what's the future of SharePoint onprem, SharePoint adminstrator jobs
There are more features to administer in Office 365. SharePoint Online is just one of them.
Your understanding of sites, web, metadata, content types, search, taxonomy will still be needed, if not ...
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Anybody have idea when will be moderate election
Moderator Election is not a scheduled task. It's only available when needed. Currently we have a good track record of moderation tasks and to my knowledge, there is no need for moderator election ...
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Comment on my question provided the answer
There is no functionality like that unfortunately, and it'd be a nice feature as well as being able to directly convert a not an answer flag into a question.
I know this is something I am guilty of ...
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20K celebrations or do we want to cleanup those unanswered questions?
Great suggestion! I'm all in.
First, one could upvote answers on questions that have answers with zero score (if they are good enough). Strangely, questions are tagged as "unanswered" even if they ...
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2017 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
I'm Arsalan Adam Khatri, here are the answers to given questions:
How would you improve the voting rate on the site? Since the famous meta post Are SharePoint.SE users lazy voters? was asked ...
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Do dinosaur developers ever loose points on SharePoint.StackOverflow?
I’m currently stationed as a subcontractor in a larger county within health care. They have almost all the version of SharePoint (2003, 2007, 2010 and 2013) still in use. The older ones are often old ...
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Do dinosaur developers ever loose points on SharePoint.StackOverflow?
This is a partly a factor of how Stack Exchange works. If you have a large body of quality work it will continue to earn points for a long time after it is posted. Wictor will continue to gain points ...
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2017 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
Here are my answers:
How would you improve the voting rate on the site? Since the famous
meta post Are SharePoint.SE users lazy voters? was asked back in 2013
I have a feeling the community ...
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How to view own Candidate Score for Moderator Election Nomination
The Candidate Score can range from 0 to 40, and is calculated as
follows:
1 point for each 1000 reputation up to 20,000 reputation for a maximum of 20 points.
1 point each for Moderation ...
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The SharePoint election has been restarted - please nominate yourselves!
My vote would be to restart the election. There is at least one extremely promising candidate that was unable to nominate due to missing the nomination period. Normally, I'd say that's unfortunate, ...
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The SharePoint election has been restarted - please nominate yourselves!
Thank you very much Slate for starting this discussion.
I am voting for restarting the SharePoint election because it seems there are multiple experienced users on this site who are already moderating ...
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Should [branding] and [sharepoint-branding] be merged?
Yes, there is no real difference here. I've merged the terms. Thanks for bringing it up. There is a way to propose a merge. If you click on Tags, then click on the specific tag, there should be an ...
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Do dinosaur developers ever loose points on SharePoint.StackOverflow?
I believe there is nothing to fix here :)
First of all it doesn't matter if SharePoint 2010 or 2007 is "dinosaur" technology - people are still looking for help on these topics. Secondly, why would ...
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Tag for standard use of SharePoint
There is an ootb tag (out of the box), https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/tags/ootb/info.
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2017 Community Moderator Election Results
Congratulation, new moderators!
You’ve both proven a great effort in making our community the best place online finding answers on SharePoint and Office 365 questions. It’s a great honor to have you ...
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2017 Community Moderator Election Results
Congratulation for new moderators, especially I want to thank @M.Qassas who is an awesome guy and who is willing to help you at anytime.
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Did i misunderstand anything when flagging this answer?
Looks like a moderator was to quick to decline. Link only answers are invalid here as link usually breaks in the future. It could also be that the answer is very old (5 years or more), and was the ...
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Check dates when marking "exact duplicates"
Thanks for enlighting this, John. I've merged the questions making your answer available on the open question.
In terms of closing questions, there are different opinions on how this should be ...
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Getting answers to your question
First of all, no one should demand or possibly even expect an eventual solution-bringer to their question. Every answer is written by someone doing it by their free will, so even a great community can'...
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Net Neutrality would really stop the ISP's menace & bring Freedom of Internet
It is a StackExchange-wide matter, which can be further debated/discussed/questioned in SE's Meta. The main-topic would be this one: Net Neutrality and Stack Overflow / Stack Exchange while this would ...
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A lot of views in a very short time
I don't see anything in the mod tools that would allow us to track this down. It is strange that the only post and answer the user has got a gold badge in a single day. I would hedge on the side of ...
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Discussion kind of question is considered?
Discussion questions shouldn't really be asked as there is no real definitive answer in that case. You should focus on a particular part of the display template that you are wanting to focus on and ...
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Handling comment conversation
The best way is to ask the one asking more questions in the comment field to use the "Ask Question" button on the top instead of a chat-kind-of questioning.
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Community positon for self answers that are just a link
The general stance is link only answers should be down voted or flagged. If flagged, we would add a post notice and they would be subject to deletion. Link only answers serve no value as hyperlinks ...
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How to handle questions about the (SharePoint) Dev Stack
Microsoft will point to SharePoint Stack Exchange for developer related questions. This will be the main source for dev Q&A for SPFx, the new O365 Network are not good enough and will never be as ...
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