Given the The 7 Essential Meta Questions of Every Beta I think it is worth having a place where we can link together these essential meta questions.
The 7 Essential Questions of Every Beta are:
Are questions about [subject] on or off topic?
- See the on-topic tag, for example:
- “Current state” questions
- Should I ask specific ROS questions here instead of answers.ros.org? (same applies for other libraries)
- Should I ask questions I already know the answer to in order to shape the site?
- Do solely software questions belong here?
- Can someone ask a vendor-specific question?
- How do we address questions about related subject areas?
- What do we do about platform-specific questions?
What should our FAQ contain?
- See What should our FAQ contain?
- See also questions tagged with faq and faq-proposed tag.
How should we tag questions about {subject}?
- See the tagging, tag-synonyms and retagging tags, for example:
- Should we add drone as a tag synonym for uav?
- Tag: ultrasound vs sonar
- Request to create synonym for not-exactly-c tag
Who should the moderators be?
- See Who should our beta moderators be?
- See also questions tagged with the moderation tag.
What’s the “elevator pitch” for our site?
What should our logo and site design look like?
How do we promote our site?
- See Promoting this website
- See also Help promote Robotics with Community Promotion Ads - 2013 and questions tagged with the site-promotion tag.
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. That centralization becomes useful when we want to hone our FAQ. $\endgroup$ – Manishearth Nov 4 '12 at 4:58