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Let's not over-engineer questions: blacklist [engineering]
Yes, this is another intrinsic tag which needs to be blocklisted. As with "electric", at least some of the time it is only used when a user is trying to tag the question as "electrical ...
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Can I ask questions about a DIY solar battery project to know whether or not my calculations are off?
Would it be on topic to ask whether or not I picked the right charge
controller and wire sizes, based on the calculations I made?
Design questions are fine, shopping questions are not fine. Please ...
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Can I ask questions about a DIY solar battery project to know whether or not my calculations are off?
It is on-topic to ask about existing design choices and determine what, if anything, is sub-optimal in your circuit. However, it sounds like this may be less of a circuit design and more of an ...
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Editing out noise and redundancy in titles
I totally agree. Question titles are important to the question and also make them more searchable and allow those who answer questions to easily select the questions that they wish to answer.
Titles ...
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Are questions about component selections (i.e. features) and use of electro-mechanical device allowed?
Selection questions are not appropriate, if you want to identify a component that is fine, and design questions are fine.
It would be a great idea if you could frame the question as a design question ...
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Are questions about component selections (i.e. features) and use of electro-mechanical device allowed?
Please note that the link was about the identify category of questions specifically. And if there's mixed voting of an answer at meta, then it means there was no community consensus about that ...
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Are "is it possible...?" questions off-topic?
Please allow me to clarify the language of the message I left.
Is it possible questions have a very bad track record on this site, I would say over 95% of them have bad answers. Partially because &...
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Are "is it possible...?" questions off-topic?
There are two types of "is it possible" questions.
One type has opened ended answers and these do not serve the site well.
The second ask yes or no questions which can be answered. In this ...
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Reference Question for Soldered Breadboard/Perfboard
While there are infinitely many possible answers, there are a few common and good answers to such a topic, and they can be objectively justified. I would upvote such a question, and might even ...
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Reference Question for Soldered Breadboard/Perfboard
Yes, this type of question is acceptable and on topic and the kind of questions that stack exchange wishes to create. Stack exchange also allows for self answering of questions (you don't get the rep ...
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Is the reminder that "Answers generated by Artificial Intelligence tools are not allowed on Stack Overflow" supposed to appear on all sites?
The Stack Exchange site has features that the sub sites don't have, it's the most-used site and gets the most attention. There isn't a deliberate reason. My guess is they don't have the analytics to ...
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