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What do the letters 'sdf' in the old favicon stand for?
The letters 'sdf' stand for Stellar Development Foundation, the organization which maintains the Stellar network. Why they are in lowercase can probably only be answered by the Community Managers (...
GlorfindelMod
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Use cases for the Stellar Stack Exchange
You (at Stellar) have given that out of your hand when you created a public (contributions licensed by cc by-sa 3.0) Stack Exchange site via the Area 51 site proposal process. This site is not ...
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Accepting Nominations — Who should Moderate this site?
Notes:
Hi!
I'm nominating myself.
I'm Ali, I'm the developer evangelist at Stellar.org and I was the one who created the area51 proposal! I'm here to answer questions on behalf of the Stellar team ...
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Vote early, vote often
Just to add a point which rarely comes up —
There is no shortage of information on the Internet. What a Stack Exchange site brings to the table is the ability for a community of engaged users ...
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Use cases for the Stellar Stack Exchange
This is actually a first for our many blockchain sites.
This site 100% absolutely was not built solely for developer questions. We launched this site based on the description and example questions ...
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Are we advisers on Stellar as an investment?
No.
This Stack Exchange is for questions and discussions about Stellar as a blockchain technology and utility, not necessarily its value. (Though in my opinion questions about wallets, terminology, ...
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Accepting Nominations — Who should Moderate this site?
I self-nominate.
Notes:
I would be a good choice because I check the site often, am open about my mistakes, and look for ways to improve. I am not self-nominating myself out of pride, but to help the ...
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Why are answers that are complete not being accepted?
Accepting an answer is not mandatory; do not feel compelled to accept the first answer you receive. Wait until you receive an answer that answers your question well.
(see the help center)
While it's ...
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Why are answers that are complete not being accepted?
Please, mark an appropriate solution the answer as soon as you can
This can lead to enabling the Fastest Gun in the West Problem. It is true that a lot of newcomers to stackexchange may ask a ...
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Accepting Nominations — Who should Moderate this site?
Notes:
I self-nominate.
I am committed to furthering the knowledge of the Stellar community through the StackExchange platform. I see the role of moderator as one of a light-handed curator; someone ...
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Accepting Nominations — Who should Moderate this site?
Notes:
This nominee would be a good choice because I see them answering and overall being an active member of the community often. They seem to be very knowledgeable and their answers are always ...
- 1,060
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Consistency of SDK tags
I suggest $language-sdk where language should lean towards its full form to avoid ambiguity. E.g. javascript-sdk instead of js-sdk. Although go-sdk is probably better than golang-sdk.
Questions ...
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As we are all trying to learn, should abbreviations be fully explained when used?
Always try to write for clarity.
The lifeblood of this site is search, so your writing should reflect your best efforts to communicate concepts and share knowledge for the large, diverse audience ...
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How should this site's chat room be named?
Stroopers
Reference: https://www.stellar.org/developers/guides/concepts/assets.html#one-stroop-multiple-stroops
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Should the tag `transaction-fees` be removed?
The first sign that it's a redundant tag, as you already mentioned is that people would have to tag questions with "transaction-fee" but also "transaction" and "fee" in order to properly tag the ...
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Attempting to edit the tag guidance for stellar-core gives a 404 error
There is a pending edit on the stellar-core tag excerpt which must be reviewed before you can edit further. If you look carefully at the tag info page, you can see:
edit pending history &...
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What can I do to get the system to accept my question?
You have posted an identical question five times. Four of these were deleted as they are duplicates of the first. You should not keep reposting questions if you don't get an answer.
You cannot ...
ChenmunkaMod
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Custom Close Reasons for the Stellar Sites
I would propose:
We are not customer service for Stellar.
This reason was discussed on meta in the very early days of the site...
We are not customer service for Stellar
We get a steady stream of ...
ChenmunkaMod
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Accepting Nominations — Who should Moderate this site?
I would like to put myself forward as a moderator of this site.
I am already a pro-tem moderator at Retrocomputing.SE and so I am familiar with the Theory of Moderation applied to these sites.
Why ...
ChenmunkaMod
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As we are all trying to learn, should abbreviations be fully explained when used?
Most of the abbreviations wouldn't be Stellar specific. In my opinion you shouldn't take the burden of teaching Crypto to new arrivals.
There are a few sites that try to do that already and do a ...
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How should this site's chat room be named?
ISS
For International Space Station, or International Stellar Station. The chat room is our hangout amongst the stars while we're not flying through the financial blockchain universe in our little ...
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