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Is there an easy way to find out what this site's on-topic and off-topic questions are?
There is no quick and easy way to find what are the topics of Super User, nor what is off-topic
The superuser.com/tour: Gives a very (and too) brief information in its first paragraph as to what is ...
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Should we split up the off-topic "shopping" closing reason?
One of our current off-topic reasons reads like this:
Questions seeking product, service, or learning material recommendations are off-topic because they tend to become obsolete quickly. Instead, ...
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Off topic close reasons – do we need specific points for Stack Overflow or Web Apps?
It's been a couple of days since we're using the new off-topic close reasons, including:
Questions seeking product, service, or learning material recommendations are off-topic because they tend ...
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Request to reopen question 600447 (How can I edit multiple text files as one virtual document?)
To try and explain what I'd like to find (which I had thought not readily doable in a sound-bite), I posted a rather lengthy question earlier today that was closed for being off-topic. One person ...
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Request to reopen question 600238
This question about creating CD+Gs from MP4s was closed this morning, 27 May 2013, at 04:05 UTC for being off-topic: in its original form, the question was obviously a software-rec.
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Update the FAQ to disallow any product recommendation questions
Foreword added at +2/-1:
To make this clear: As far as I can tell (and I quote a diamond moderator below), this is already official moderation policy on this site. I just want to have this added ...
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