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2017 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection

Raspberry Pi Stack Exchange is scheduled for an election starting next week, January 23rd. In connection with that election, we will be hosting a Q&A here for candidates. This will be an ...
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"Too many of your edits were rejected, try again in 7 days." What did I do wrong?

When trying to edit a tag wiki:Too many of your edits were rejected, try again in 7 days. Very useful. After being here for just a few days, I can't edit any more tag wikis, which is essentially ...
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Stack Exchange site vs. forum

I love Stack Exchange-like sites. I think they have found the way to really make people addicted to helping others :) These sites work well for general "fields", such as programming or system ...
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What defines the borders between RPi and other related Stack Exchange sites?

Our site has overlap between many other Stack Exchange sites: Unix & Linux (Operating systems) [raspberry-pi(421 q's), raspbian(272 q's)] Electrical Engineering (GPIO etc) [raspberry-pi(547 q's)] ...
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Answering Linux questions vs close with no comment given

With the significant spread of the Raspberry Pi over the last few years to a broader base the traditional Linux / Markers, and the increase in Linux style questions from new users (signified with 1 ...
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Ambiguous Frequency Tag

I was browsing through the tags to look for some to edit, in the pursuit of the research assistant badge when I cam across the "frequency" tag. It currently has 6 questions associated with it, but ...
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Greetings from your newest moderator

I'm happy to have been appointed as a new moderator pro tempore, next to Jivings and Steve Robillard. Full fledged regular Stack Exchange sites get to hold elections, but we have to make it out of ...
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How can we gain support of the Raspberry Pi foundation?

The Raspberry Pi foundation has made it relatively clear that they want their forums to provide the majority of support for Raspberry Pi Q&A and discussion. A key player in promotion for this ...
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Call to action: Cast close votes

Since begin of May only three non-mod users reviewed any tasks in the Close Votes Review Queue. Add two or three users that cast close votes outside the queues and another very small number of users ...
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Who should moderate our site? [closed]

Raspberry Pi StackExchange has been in public beta for almost a week now, and soon it will be time for us to get our first crop of moderators. As explained in the "Moderator Pro Tempore" blog post: ...
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To sudo or not to sudo

How do we want to represent commands that require sudo or root privileges. For example: sudo ntpd -qg or by use of the "#" to represent a root prompt see this question for an example: While ...
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Should we have syntax highlighting?

This has been asked before, when we were still in beta. Now we've graduated and everything looks all spiffy, I thought it would be nice to have syntax highlighting. As Jivings points out in the ...
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Nomenclature: Shield

What is the correct term for a RPi shield? Should we correct mistakes when we see them in posts? I have seen "Expansion Board" used in the wild, but that sounds a bit boring.
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Are we facing a problem with handling the First Posts Review Queue?

For those who have looked through the stats on First Posts Review Queue, you will notice I sit at the top of most reviewed with over 4500 reviews. I have over the past months become aware that it ...
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Linux Questions about Raspbian should be OK

What is "on-topic"? We seem to have a lot of new users, probably the Zero will increase this. Lots have little or no Linux experience. As a consequence they ask beginner (or even more advanced) Linux ...
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Hats or No Hats? (2013)

It's that time of year again: Winter Bash 2013. Details: This event will run from 16 December 2013 to 3 January 2014. Users will be able to see their entire hat collection at http://winterbash2013....
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Our policy regarding product recommendations seems inconsistent

I'm referring specifically to this part: This refers to questions such as, "What power supply should I buy?" (= off-topic). However, if you have a specific product and you want to know if it is ...
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How can I spread butter on my Toast using a Pi?

I have seen some allot of questions that are way over the border of anything to do with the Pi. eg. How to setup FQDN with Pi for sendmail? The only reason the question is allowed because it has the ...
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Will Questions about the new Compute module and it's IO Board be on-topic?

So RaspberryPiFoundation realeased the new Compute Module, which I'm really excited about. It's obviously a Raspberry Pi device; does that mean questions about it will be on-topic here? I ask ...
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Should tag wlan be a synonym of wifi?

We currently have the tag wifi with nearly 900 questions. We also have the tag wlan which has just 28 questions and no tag wiki. On other sites, for example SuperUser, tags with these two names are ...
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Pi Model tag naming is not consistent

We have multiple tags for the various models of the Raspberry Pi: model-a, pi1, pib+, pi2, and pi-zero And two related tags: models and raspberry-pi-foundation As you can see, there are differences ...
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Where would you post questions about boards like BeagleBone, pcDuino

I have a question about my pcDuino, but do not know where to put it. Would it be on-topic at Raspberry Pi Stack Exchange, or any other place on SE? Or, would it not have a place on the SE network? ...
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Late 2017 Community Moderator Election Results

Raspberry Pi's third moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderator is: They'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for volunteering, ...
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2017 Community Moderator Election

The 2017 Community Moderator Election is now underway! Community moderator elections have three phases: Nomination phase Primary phase Election phase Most elections take between two and three weeks,...
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Late 2017 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection

Raspberry Pi is scheduled for an election next week, November 6th. In connection with that, we will be holding a Q&A with the candidates, as we did earlier this year. This will be an opportunity ...
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How to encourage people to accept an answer?

Recently I answered a question, to which the OP responded: It works.thanks so much. But he didn't accept it (or up-vote it either, unless he came back and did that at a later time). I'm not so ...
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Late 2017 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire

In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...
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Are we enforcing Stack Overflow's English-only rule?

Stack Overflow has an English-only rule. Given Raspberry Pi is such a well-defined subject area, with such a diverse user-base, are we going to stick to English-only or allow questions in other ...
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How related to Raspberry Pi must a question be?

I flagged this question as off-topic: Feature detection for embedded platform OpenCV My rationale was that the question was a general programming question about OpenCV that had no apparent connection ...
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Is it acceptable to accept your own answer

...when you posted the answer with the question and checked the "Answer your own question – share your knowledge, Q&A-style" box? Should you wait a period of time to give the community a chance ...
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Pointing to the Foundation on the RaspPi.SE Homepage

Given the fact the RaspPi foundation are supporting their forum as the official resource, can we support their work further by linking to them somehow on the front page? i.e. https://askubuntu.com/ ...
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Removal of response from the site

I have a question about my Raspberry Pi Stack Exchange post: apt-get update gives me errors with mirrordirector.raspbian.org I answered the question yesterday. I had a similar problem and the ...
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Synonymise [stretch] and [raspbian-stretch] (and friends)

I've noticed a couple of synonyms regarding Raspbian versions that would benefit from being synonyms: jessie (441 questions) and raspbian-jessie (4 questions) stretch (76 questions) and raspbian-...
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Please remove the limits on user access to the schematic tool

I'm in a discussion with a user who doesn't seem to have access to the schematic tool. Is there a "reputation threshold" for access to this tool? If so, can we get rid of them?
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Question is on hold for being "shopping"?

I did some searching of The Internets and found a widget that seems cool. However, I didn't find any other info. I decided to ask about it here. I'm somewhat active on several SE's (and have read a ...
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Let's get critical: Mar 2015 Site Self-Evaluation

We all love Raspberry Pi Stack Exchange, but there is a whole world of people out there who need answers to their questions and don't even know that this site exists. When they arrive from Google, ...
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Ambiguous Flash Tag

I was browsing through the tags to look for some to edit, in the pursuit of the research assistant badge when I cam across the "flash" tag. It currently has 8 questions associated with it, but they ...
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Where is da SWAG?

Anything expected in this area? I liked the shirts presented in the Design Meta post. Any kind of promotional things happening? Or can we buy from anywhere
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It’s time to get back on course

I’ve noticed a growing obsession with numbers on Raspberry Pi these past few months. The thing is, watching stats isn’t your job. Your job is to create the very best body of Raspberry Pi knowledge on ...
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Can't add tags?

This question: Why does my SPI-using program in C give varying results? seems to scream "I should have the spi tag!". Unfortunately there is no spi tag. I believe the only way to create a tag is to ...
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When we get past beta, will I keep my privileges?

I have worked hard on this site. And, I have been rewarded with lot's of permissions. Will I be able to keep those when we leave beta, or will I have to work to re-earn these rewards?
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Community Promotion Ads - 2017

It is a bit late into this new year, being that we're already in the second month, but we are now cycling the Community Promotion Ads for 2017! What are Community Promotion Ads? Community Promotion ...
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Why is it that the Raspberry Pi stack exchange does not seem that active?

I have posted many questions to the Raspberry Pi stack exchange and not that many people view it. This means that I don't get an answer to any of my questions.
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Should the headline marked with [Solved]?

Here I had a discussion about to mark the headline with the tag [Solved]: Rpi4B Raspbian 10 buster Adafruit-blinka Installation Problem [Solved]. I remember that one of the moderator has written for ...
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Should this site allow Pi-Pico or RP2040 Questions

I expect there will be 3 types of Pi-Pico users (and thus Questions). The first will be Pi users who also want to use/program Pi-Pico from the Pi. There will be a group who just want to use as a ...
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Why does the close votes queue have so many posts in them?

I have noticed since I started delving into reviewing posts on Raspberry Pi StackExchange that the closes votes queue always seems to have a large number of posts in it. Currently there are 22 posts ...
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Programming question in context of Raspberry PI - Does it belong here?

I posted a question almost an hour ago. The topic of the question is heavily programming related (in Java). The library I'm using is not Raspberry-specific; its a general audio library included in the ...
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This answer is a comment

In this answer the author says: "I don't have enough rep to comment on your question so I had to post as an answer." The description text for the flag "not an answer" says: "This was posted as an ...
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What abbreviation should we use? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Should we enforce consistent abbreviating? Following on from Should we enforce consistent abbreviating?, could we vote on an abbreviation for consistency? RaspPi Raspi RPi ...
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Reject edits with just added tags

I have rejected some edits by @RoninEngineer. To add RPI-4 tags to a question that is a generic question and NOT specific for Raspberry Pi 4 is not an edit that enhance the question in my opinion. ...
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