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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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Should this site cater to those trying to build community platforms?

I had been thinking about this one for a while, because we certainly do have expertise in some fringe areas of this, so I'm going to sum up the other answers and add my own opinion to it: Technical …
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Are mailing lists on-topic?

Moderators.SE is (and in the proposal already was) intended to be about communities. There's a reason the matter of community management was brought up repeatedly. Of course that means mailing lists a …
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Should we restrict to only digital communities?

As I said on Monica's question already: I don't think we necessarily have to restrict ourselves to digital communities. Fundamentally, the patterns and required actions are the same. Offline communit …
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Who should be the Moderators moderators?

profile for FEichinger on Stack Exchange, a network of free, community-driven Q&A sites http://stackexchange.com/users/flair/1945575.png As we're setting up for a lot of self-"nominations", I'll …
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Are questions asking for information about top techniques used by major sites on topic?

Personally, I voted primarily opinion-based on both "top techniques" questions. As for the one this meta Q is about, my choice was made because there is absolutely no way to empirically determine the …
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What tagging guidelines do we want to establish?

The purpose of this question is to start a discussion about site policy. …
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What tagging guidelines do we want to establish?

We have a few very broad tags that might need to be removed, or differentiated: community This tag tells us very little about the question. Every question is, in a way, about a community. The only q …
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What tagging guidelines do we want to establish?

Prefer nouns. Tags categorize content. A category's name is usually a noun, not a verb. Instead of monetize, use monetization. Rather than voting use voting-behavior or votes.
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What tagging guidelines do we want to establish?

This might be worth a more dedicated discussion, I'm just putting the thought (and the suggestion to remove the mentioned tags) out here for now. …
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Where is the line between product development and community development?

Yes, this is related to community building! The community of a blog is the blog's loyal following. Whether or not that community is directly associated with one distinct service (such as the blog's we …
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Merge chat-rooms and irc-tags

I partially disagree. chat-rooms should be used for moderating a chat room - in general. Or, phrased with more abstraction: Any real-time text-based medium. irc, on the other hand, would relate to t …
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Can we kill [bad-moderation]?

I have just taken care of all questions bad-moderation. We're left with three questions that relate to incorrect actions taken by a moderator, one of which also held the mistakes tag, which seems mor …
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merge [punishment-severity] into [disciplinary-actions]?

After thinking about this for a while, I have just issued the merge. The only question in what used to be punishment-severity that was actually exclusively about the severity of punitive actions was …
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