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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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Question about MySQL root user password strength - Do we want it here?

https://serverfault.com/questions/210034/why-is-it-bad-to-have-a-weak-mysql-user-password
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How and when should we use the Community Wiki feature?

Also have a look at discussion-questions . … Discussion questions and other questions which arent easy to make a common conclusion on are often tagged as Community Wiki on SO, but is it the same in our site? …
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Questions that are more like discussion

Theres already been asked if discussion questions are okay here, but when you ask such question with no definitive answer, when should one accept an answer? …
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Cross posting - is it encouraged?

Do we and should we encourge cross posting questions? For example I found an interesting question with no good answers at Reddit and one at Seclists, and I posted them here. Nealmcb made some statem …
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Duplicated tags: forensic and forensics. Can we merge them?

They should be merged yes, but only AviD has enough reputation to change tags right now. I do not think you should use the long version, as it can really be applied to any tag. Just imagine all the …
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Do we want questions about scams, phising and malware?

I just saw the area51 proposal scams-phishing-and-malware. Dont we want questions like these on our SE?
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Is this the right place to ask about Jailbreaking ipod/iphone/ipad?

I'm wondering if this is the right place to ask about jailbreaking devices such as iPod, iPad, iPod, or how to root your Android phone?
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Beta badge - Will it be awarded now that we are live?

I know that some of us already got the beta badge from early stages. Will the badge again be awarded for the rest who have participated?
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How should we tag questions about {subject}?

I think we should avoid the 'security' suffix/prefix which we keep seeing posts being tagged with. For example: should login-security be renamed too login ? security-audit renamed too audit? secu …
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Tag Synonym Suggestion

I have suggested it here: https://security.stackexchange.com/tags/web-browser/synonyms Users with more than 1250 reputation and a total answer score of 5 or more on the tag, can suggest tag synon …
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Should we accept question about making exploit or building malware?

Definitely OK to answer questions like this. Knowledge is meant to be shared, one way or another. If we did not educate people into building exploits we would have a lot of unknown holes in our so …
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Is it a right place to ask about viruses?

This seems to be a question for superuser.com
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