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I think this proposal is way too broad – juanformoso May 27 '10 at 14:04

I don't see a problem in the broadness of a site if your entry point is Google. You can see how most questions on SO are on C#, but that doesn't mean Haskell questions aren't answered. Broadness becomes a problem when less popular questions either don't get answered or if the questions start trailing too much in off-topic directions. I don't see this occuring on the current Triology, so I don't expect this to happen here if there's a strong community that focuses on what is important. – Ivo Flipse May 27 '10 at 14:25

If there was a way to submit new site proposals, I'd submit "Google Apps" and "Facebook" and 90% of the questions in this site would then be off topic. – Michael Pryor May 27 '10 at 17:45

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157 Example Questions (11 closed)

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added by Gnoupi Jun 1 '10 at 14:05

Questions asking how to handle a particular code are off-topic, more for webmasters. However, this one seems like a legitimate web(site/app) question from a user point of view. – Gnoupi Jun 1 '10 at 14:07

Should be handled on a site like SU. – slugster Jun 7 '10 at 13:09

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added by Ivo Flipse May 25 '10 at 7:17

Belongs on StackOverflow. – Tyler Carter May 27 '10 at 3:37

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added by Ivo Flipse May 25 '10 at 7:39

should be part of a GIS site? – George May 28 '10 at 4:44

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added by Ivo Flipse May 26 '10 at 8:14

I don't understand the question. What, exactly, are you trying to do? – raven May 27 '10 at 14:46

I took this from Super User, it's about an easy tool to upload picture to fill in blog engine – Ivo Flipse May 27 '10 at 16:03

Vague question - should be voted down until it is fixed – Good Person May 30 '10 at 6:49

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added by Ivo Flipse May 26 '10 at 8:50

Subjective and argumentive – Ivo Flipse May 26 '10 at 8:50

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added by Chris W. Rea May 27 '10 at 3:16

closed as off topic by Al E., fretje, Alconja, David Fullerton, jjnguy Jun 7 '10 at 22:19

This question does not relate to the topic of the proposal.
It was closed as part of an automated migration of off-topic to close votes on September 29, 2011.

The site is for web-based applications, not downloaded applications for specific devices. Although, what about "Apps" that interface with a web service that is otherwise web-accessible? – Chris W. Rea May 27 '10 at 3:17

I have to agree with Chris W. Rea. What if the question was "Is there a Google Docs app for the iPhone?" – cstack May 27 '10 at 19:50

Then you ask it on the gadget site, where they will answer it with lightning speed – Ivo Flipse May 28 '10 at 6:05

To much scope within this question for spammers to promote their apps. – slugster Jun 2 '10 at 1:42

Aren't Apps basically desktop applications only that the desktop got shrink-sized? – hakre Jun 4 '10 at 18:11

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added by Gnoupi May 27 '10 at 5:39

Belongs on Super User – Gnoupi May 27 '10 at 5:39

It's asking for an add-on whose sole purpose is to connect to a web app. It belongs here. – cstack May 27 '10 at 20:00

@sirco - A browser's main purpose is to access web apps (ok, and basic websites). It is still a piece of software running on your computer. – Gnoupi May 27 '10 at 21:47

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added by raven May 27 '10 at 18:34

Here's one I (shouldn't have) posted on SU. I say it's not appropriate here either. – raven May 27 '10 at 18:35

I would suggest instead to ask why Twitter is the most popular site for sharing status' – Casebash Jun 2 '10 at 3:03

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added by Isaac Waller May 27 '10 at 23:04

	w/o a browser you can not run webapps. – hakre Jun 4 '10 at 18:13
	@hakre Or see these questions and answers. – Michael Todd Jun 4 '10 at 18:17

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added by Chris Lawlor May 28 '10 at 15:56

closed as off topic by Mehdi, fretje, BalusC, Alconja, Maxim Zaslavsky Jun 8 '10 at 19:23

This question does not relate to the topic of the proposal.
It was closed as part of an automated migration of off-topic to close votes on September 29, 2011.

meant to be a bit of an edge case - not "how do I download <insert warez here>" exactly, but similar – Chris Lawlor May 28 '10 at 15:59

As long as it's for legal stuff then I'd vote "yes". – ChrisF May 28 '10 at 18:09

Most torrent clients are desktop apps, not web. – cstack May 29 '10 at 18:11

Belongs on SuperUser. – Tadeusz A. Kadłubowski May 30 '10 at 5:43

I vote "no". If this question were appropriate, then anything goes. I found a .pdf file I want to read, what now? I found an .ogg file to which I wish to listen, what now? I found a .svg file I wish to view, what now? I don't think we should cater to the computer-illiterate. Unless, perhaps someone wants to propose a SE site just for them? Might be tough to gain an audience, however. :) – raven May 31 '10 at 22:52

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added by Nick Berardi Jun 1 '10 at 1:56

Maybe wikipedia where you can create an entry for every letter of the alphabet as there is an entry for every number? Sorry but that question is somehow too broad to decide on. – hakre Jun 12 '10 at 21:47

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added by Ivo Flipse Jun 1 '10 at 11:51

Question for webmasters – Ivo Flipse Jun 1 '10 at 11:53

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added by Ivo Flipse Jun 1 '10 at 12:24

Subjective question – Ivo Flipse Jun 1 '10 at 12:26

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added by Arvinje, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Jun 4 '10 at 15:23

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added by Rob Jun 6 '10 at 10:38

Word as a question, please? – Roger Pate Jun 6 '10 at 12:57

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added by Ivo Flipse May 25 '10 at 7:17

Belongs on DocType – Ivo Flipse May 25 '10 at 7:58

too "developery" – Jeff Atwood May 27 '10 at 6:00

N: Agree with @Ivo and @Jeff, plus it's subjective. – Pops May 29 '10 at 21:30

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added by Ivo Flipse May 25 '10 at 7:18

closed as off topic by Juan A. Navarro, Robert Harvey, dagorym, luvieere, Rob Hyndman Jun 9 '10 at 10:43

This question does not relate to the topic of the proposal.
It was closed as part of an automated migration of off-topic to close votes on September 29, 2011.

Subjective question – Ivo Flipse May 25 '10 at 7:33

I do not play facebook games, so nothing to ask for. – hakre Jun 4 '10 at 18:05

I think this slot of a subjective question would be better filled by "Who should I follow on Twitter?" since it is more likely to be asked on a Q&A site. – cstack Jun 13 '10 at 14:39

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added by Ivo Flipse May 26 '10 at 8:49

Belongs on StackOverflow. – Tyler Carter May 27 '10 at 3:37

N: Does not belong on this site OR on StackOverflow. Copyright is not programming. – Pops May 29 '10 at 21:29

@Lord: If the "how to" means "what technological measures can", then it belongs on SO. That's how I'd initially read the question, but this would be cleared up by the question's body. – Roger Pate Jun 2 '10 at 12:43

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added by Troggy May 27 '10 at 4:44

There was a question like this on Super User once. I don't think it belongs anywhere as it is a bias question. – Troggy May 27 '10 at 4:45

Convert them to wanting to use it, or convert their existing mail system across? – Rog May 27 '10 at 6:41

Probably a good question for Super User, if that. – Nick Berardi May 30 '10 at 15:40

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added by Adam Davis May 27 '10 at 16:56

This one made me laugh... – Tyler Carter May 27 '10 at 16:57

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added by Good Person May 27 '10 at 22:23

N: Not an inherently bad question, but it belongs in an e-mail to [email protected]. We can't be tracking ToS violations for every site on the Internet. – Pops May 27 '10 at 22:56

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added by Ivo Flipse Jun 1 '10 at 11:51

This is due to Google Reader, not the audio file, so the web app is causing a problem that can be solved – Ivo Flipse Jun 1 '10 at 11:54

Even if it wasn't due to GR, the OP probably won't know that when asking the question. – Roger Pate Jun 3 '10 at 6:34

To me this is more of a superuser type deal IMO, this is a question about a product. – Nick Craver Jun 4 '10 at 22:15

@Nick, but the product is a web app. – Mike Sherov Jun 8 '10 at 12:11

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added by kzh Jun 6 '10 at 18:26

a network connection is required for web application to be useable – maahtu Jun 6 '10 at 18:47

this is not a good example question, but rather more a "meta" question about the topic of this group. – Juan A. Navarro Jun 6 '10 at 19:05

Internet connection is not necessary to run a Web Application. You may run them on an Intranet or local machines or (if they support) you may use them offline like Google Reader and GMail using Adobe AIR and etc. Web Applications mostly stands on protocols, platforms and techniques we used to develop and use them IMO. – Mehdi Jun 6 '10 at 20:37

HTTP Request ကို Listen လုပ္ေနတဲ့ Server (Web Server) တစ္ခုနဲ႔ Run ေနၿပီး Web Browser နဲ႔ သံုးလို႔ရမယ္။ Application အေနနဲ႔ သံုးလို႔ရမယ္ဆိုရင္ Web Application ပဲေပါ႔။ Internet Connection နဲ႔သံုးမယ္၊ Intranet ထဲမွာသံုးမယ္ဆိုတဲ့ Access Method ေတြနဲ႔ မသက္ဆိုင္ပါဘူး။ – max Jun 9 '10 at 13:14

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added by Ivo Flipse May 27 '10 at 13:49

This should sound familiar to @Jeff: superuser.com/questions/82036/… – Ivo Flipse May 27 '10 at 13:49

Actually if you look at the original, I think there's nothing high tech going on there and it's just a great reminder to make backups of your Wordpress blog... – Ivo Flipse May 27 '10 at 21:59

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added by Tyler Carter May 27 '10 at 14:28

closed as off topic by Jeff Atwood, maahtu, therefromhere, Lance Roberts, Mike Sherov Jun 8 '10 at 12:04

This question does not relate to the topic of the proposal.
It was closed as part of an automated migration of off-topic to close votes on September 29, 2011.

Belongs on Super User – Nick Berardi May 30 '10 at 15:39

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added by Isaac Waller May 30 '10 at 2:00

This belongs on Meta – cstack May 30 '10 at 16:16

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added by Good Person May 30 '10 at 6:56

N: The theoretical OP of this question is asking a financial question, not a web app question. If the question didn't mention the OP's finances, I would have voted yes. – Pops May 31 '10 at 18:02

I'll vote yes in spite of the secondary part of the question. – ChrisF May 31 '10 at 20:42

I vote yes, if the answer is about how to reclaim your account and how to prevent it, we can't help with the financial part. – Ivo Flipse Jun 1 '10 at 7:07

Anyone else care to take a stance on this one? – Ivo Flipse Jun 1 '10 at 12:07

Since when is email a web app? I mean, there are web apps for managing email, but OTOH, email has been around a lot longer than the web. If the question said "My GMail account was hacked, what do I do?", that might be another kettle of fish. – Dougal Campbell Jun 3 '10 at 2:51

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added by Ivo Flipse Jun 1 '10 at 12:33

Not a real/relevant question and it's subjective. Best at what? – Ivo Flipse Jun 1 '10 at 12:34

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added by maahtu Jun 5 '10 at 19:14

	yeah. you can. Web services can be use for this purpose – kzh Jun 5 '10 at 21:31
	to those voted this post as 'not a good example' : please explain about why this is not a good example. in my opinion this subject is exactly related to Web Applications, and wants just one word answer: Yes or No, or how – maahtu Jun 7 '10 at 8:08
	@maahtu: maybe it's because about webservices and not webapplications? web services are normally used by web deveopers while web applications are normally used by so called users who do not develop the application they are working with. – hakre Jun 7 '10 at 8:53
	@hakre: you are right, but we can't consider these issues as completely two seperated fields, since web application programmers may need to use other developers' web services in their applications. or maybe I'm in mistake about the topic 'Web Applications'. I beleive that this proposal is related to developers who develop Web Applications not the end users. am I wrong? – maahtu Jun 7 '10 at 10:55
	if this question is not related to web applications, it's better to consider it as a 'great off-topic example'. why 'not a good example'? – maahtu Jun 7 '10 at 11:02

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added by Ivo Flipse May 25 '10 at 7:19

closed as off topic by Chris W. Rea, Peter K., Juan A. Navarro, Margaret, Ikke Jun 5 '10 at 14:30

This question does not relate to the topic of the proposal.
It was closed as part of an automated migration of off-topic to close votes on September 29, 2011.

Illegal things should not be supported – Ivo Flipse May 25 '10 at 7:31

Let's be careful throwing around the word 'illegal' - this is meant to be an international site, with a wide audience. Legality is subjective. Perhaps the question should be changed to "...illegal [in the USA|under international copyright agreements|under the DMCA]" or similar? – Adam Davis Jun 1 '10 at 3:35

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added by Ivo Flipse May 25 '10 at 7:18

closed as off topic by Jeff Atwood, Isaac Waller, Peter K., cstack, therefromhere Jun 6 '10 at 11:41

This question does not relate to the topic of the proposal.
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Subjective question – Ivo Flipse May 25 '10 at 7:32

There may be room for discussion of etiquette, best practices, etc though. – Craig Walker May 27 '10 at 3:20

This should be community wiki! ;-) – Ivo Flipse May 27 '10 at 6:18

I would be fine with asking for tools to help me find people to follow on Twitter – Casebash Jun 2 '10 at 2:52

I don't see why everyone is saying this isn't a good example question. This is a perfect example of something people would ask about Twitter but shouldn't. – cstack Jun 13 '10 at 14:38

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