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Rename the 'Blatantly off-topic' close reason

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What are our specific abbreviations and terms?

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Should frivolous questions about esolangs be on topic?

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No custom sites to move to

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A community-specific close reason for unfocused language design questions

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Missing the obvious close reason: "not about programming language design or implementation"

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Please enable MathJax [duplicate]

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A second plea to enable MathJax

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The Garbage Disposal is still parented to the old domain

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Is or is not “Why target an existing VM?” too broad?

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Preempting the "long tail of crap" problem

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Conclusion of Room Owner nominations/election for The Garbage Collector

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Moving towards more focused language design questions

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Are “what are some possible syntaxes” questions on-topic?

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Which "Which languages have XYZ?" questions are on-topic?

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What do we think of this style of "how is X implemented in your language" question?

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What is a programming language for the purposes of this site to qualify as on topic?

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How to deal with Advantage-only or Disadvantage-only questions?

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It is finally time to burninate [pros-cons]

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Should we allow questions asking to find or recommend off-site resources?

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Synonymize [ast] with [abstract-syntax-tree]

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Are questions about debugging incorrect codegen on-topic?

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The [stack] of different means of this tag

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2023 Community Moderator Election Results

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PSA Do not use the pros-cons tag in combination with language comparison

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Whats the difference between the tag "optimization" and the tag "language-performance"? Should they be merged?

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Why is our logo PLD instead of PLDI?

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Can we get a site logo in the style of GenAI please

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What will be the burnination process for PLDI?

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What is the [syntax-highlighting] tag for? I asked two questions about syntax highlighting, and both of them got closed

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Are linters, formatters, and static analysis tools on topic?

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What should we explicitly call out as on- and off-topic in our Help Center?

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How useful are bounties for this specific Stack Exchange?

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Are discussing features broadly and discussing this feature specific to a language considered duplicates?

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Our help center has nothing saying what's on topic

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Whos downvoting every question lately?

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Leaving Private Beta, and Initial Pro-Tempore Moderator Election!

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2023 Community Moderator Election

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The [queue] is too long

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Why is the start of the tag wiki information cut off for [language-comparison]?

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Should we allow questions that ask for (useful, concrete) naming suggestions?

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