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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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How can we encourage people to find the middle ground?

Is X appropriate? It is more than just broad and Not Constructive, it is also potentially Too Localized. It really is up to the discretion of the moderator because it isn't very clear, and we al …
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This is becoming too engineering focused

I felt that I should answer this as one of the original members of the Area51 proposal and site beta, AND as a community moderator on Programmers. One of the key reasons that the Workplace proposal ev …
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How do they? vs. Do they? Social media background checks

The community closed the following question: How do prospective employers screen private social networking profiles? It had quite a bit of NC content and rightfully should have been closed because o …
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How do we define Constructive on this site?

The million dollar question here is: How do we define workplace expertise? One might argue that nobody goes through special training to navigate the workplace like you were training for electrical e …
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Why was my flag of a redundant answer declined?

I would like to know why you feel that I did not give a valid unique answer to the question? The question was What is standard practice for generating candidates? entry-level. I gave a good explanat …
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Did the edits on the question about how to bridge the gap between management and employees m...

Here are my thoughts. Your edit completely changed the heart of the question to where it is no longer recognizable. The true heart of the question is Why are executives valued more than engineers? …
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How can we diversify our community?

We all understand the demographic problem rather well, but IMHO any approach to fix the problem cannot occur from our activities within the site. As users we ask questions, provide comments, ensure q …
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Summer 2014 Community Moderator Election Results

Congratulations enderland! I am glad that it was you.
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Why was "Lifestyle impact on career" closed?

I fail to understand why the moderator decided to close this question, even after my edit removing specific instances where the OP was polling for opinons. https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questio …
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Why is this off topic and is there a way to improve and reopen?

I am trying to understand why this question was closed as offtopic: How can I research a competitor? This has been something that I have discussed with others in the workplace from time to time as i …
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