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Who is the core audience of UX Stack Exchange?
This is the right place for your question, yes. The Meta site is for questions about the site itself.
As for your actual question; As taken from the site tour:
UX Stack Exchange is a question and ...
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Is it time to put an end to "Icon for X" questions?
At the time of the above "reasoning", Flat design trends were barely even a thing, and mobile interface design consideration was nowhere near as influential or dominant as it is now.
Icons weren't ...
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Delete [accesibility] tag
On inspection it turned out that only one question had that misspelled tag. I therefor submitted an edit so the tag was no longer used on any question. Once the edit was reviewed and approved there ...
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Fewer people Voting (or Accepting)
I've gone and had a look back over the analytics for the past few years to see if there are any patterns, and while we can't share the specifics here what I can say is that there hasn't really been a ...
JonWMod
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Validating the "upvoting decline" hypothesis
Before reading my rather negative reaction to this suggestion, please bear in mind:
So, in short, I suggest to conduct an UXSE user research
But I think that your concrete suggestion of a user ...
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Validating the "upvoting decline" hypothesis
Here you go, here's a list of all the top UX.SE users by average answer score (it's a rough and very slow query cobbled together from others already in the data explorer, but hopefully it serves its ...
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Should there be a description of what UX *is* on the help homepage?
The tour page currently states:
UX Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for User Experience Designers, Information Architects, and Human Computer Interaction researchers. It's built and run ...
JonWMod
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2018 Community Moderator Election Results
Welcome to the team! About time we had some fresh blood around the place.
JonWMod
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What to do when there is no answers on Bounty question
By design the bounty is taken from your rep as you create the bounty, one can't get it back no matter the results. You can choose not to award the bounty or the site will automatically award the ...
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Should questions about the user experience of the site itself be on meta or the main site?
Questions about the UX of the site are primarily opinion based questions, in the same way that questions about the UX amazon.com are. Hence it would not be allowed on the main site. It would however ...
JohnGBMod
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What's the story behind the star theme?
Well you're in luck. A blog post about the design of UX Stack Exchange was published by the designer Dmitry Fadeyev when it went live. Here's what he had to say about the star:
One of the more ...
JonWMod
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Is this a poor quality answer?
The answerer was trying to be helpful and suggest an alternative to your proposal, rather than commenting on the actual request. So in a sense it is poor quality, but it isn't the sort of answer that ...
JonWMod
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On what forum do I ask UX tool-based questions, if not here on UX.se?
The problem with these questions, which are really just polls, is outlined perfectly on the StackOverflow blog in this famous article: Real Questions have Answers
In summary though, the take away from ...
JonWMod
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Why is this recent highly upvoted icon suggestion question not closed?
IMO, this question is not asking just for an icon.
There are multiple ways to possibly indicate to a user that the cable is different than others (reading the answers, we find suggestions of all ...
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2018 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
Participation in this communities Meta site is rather low. Do you feel
this is a problem, and if so - how would you go about increasing
participation and use of this aspect of the site? The same ...
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2018 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
Participation in this communities Meta site is rather low. Do you feel this is a problem, and if so - how would you go about increasing participation and use of this aspect of the site? The same goes ...
Michael LaiMod
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Why are there so many close voters on this sub SE page?
Having been on this community for a number of years and now in my second year as a moderator, this is my take on the question.
Firstly, I think that this community does have a slightly more strict ...
Michael LaiMod
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Have rules changed at ux.stackexchange?
I don't see the trend that you're referring to. Some questions are borderline, and in those cases I weigh up whether I think it's possible to answer well, and whether or not the answers would be ...
JohnGBMod
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Where did the rep disappear?
Reputation is limited to 200 points per day (except for things like awarded bounties and other exceptions), so once you get 40 votes in one day (20 for an answer) you hit your rep limit. More votes ...
JonWMod
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Is a pros vs cons question on topic?
No, not really suitable. Primarily because there is no answer to a Pros and Cons question. Someone will say one thing they think is a Pro, someone else will give another example, another person will ...
JonWMod
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What to do when there is no answers on Bounty question
Not receiving any / suitable answers to a bountied question may not necessarily indicate a problem with the bounty system. To be honest it probably indicates that there is an issue with the question ...
JonWMod
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Collection of examples of bad UX design?
No. For the reasons you've already stated.
Stack Exchange is a Question and Answer site. Not a discussion forum with threads. You pose a question and people who know how to solve it will give you ...
JonWMod
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Should there be a description of what UX *is* on the help homepage?
I would support such a feature/content for two reasons:
Firstly, I think there are lots of new users coming to the site constantly, and I think being able to provide a clear focus and vision for not ...
Michael LaiMod
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2018 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
Participation in this communities Meta site is rather low. Do you feel this is a problem, and if so - how would you go about increasing participation and use of this aspect of the site?
The same ...
JonWMod
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Stepping down as Moderator
Sorry to see you step down. Hope you stick around, you've got a wealth of great knowledge and experience to share. All the best.
JonWMod
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Stepping down as Moderator
The current moderators for UXSE (apart from myself) have been around ever since I posted my first Question/Answer, so it is sad to see one of the moderators depart.
However, I hope that others will ...
Michael LaiMod
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Stepping down as Moderator
I feel you Benny, that's also what's preventing me from participating in the elections for the past few years, although a large part of me wants to :). Good luck!
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2019: a year in moderation
I noticed that in the corresponding post for last year there was just one comment relating to what this data means to the community and how it compares to the previous year (asked by me). And since ...
Michael LaiMod
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Validating the "upvoting decline" hypothesis
An interesting idea, but I believe it would not be as accurate as we want to. At first, this community is constantly growing which makes the number of users increase at a steady pace. The effect is ...
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