Questions tagged [discusión]
There's something you want to discuss with the community. You want users to answer and comment to express their views about it, rather than just voting; and you expect your question to be voted based on usefulness and quality. // Quieres debatir sobre algo con la comunidad. Quieres que los usuarios respondan y comenten para expresar su opinión sobre ello, en vez de solo votar; y esperas que tu pregunta sea votada acorde a su utilidad y calidad.
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Etymology comparisons
We've seen a number of recent questions asking "Why is X in English different than Y in Spanish?" A couple recent examples:
Why is sport in Spanish 'deporte' and not 'esporte&#...
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Low number/percentage of accepted answers
I am under the impression that too many questions don't have accepted answers, even though a lot of them do have answers (even more than one). I see this practice negatively for two reasons:
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Upvoting/commenting/answering old questions
What is the rule about upvoting, commenting on, and answering old questions?
If there is an old question that I have more information on, that is
not included in current answers, should I add it? I ...
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Are general definition questions allowed?
Are questions about a definition easily findable in google or RAE acceptable for the site?
Give me your opinions :)
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What should we do with the meanings-definitions tag?
A previous meta question didn't really go anywhere, so I thought I'd try a more targeted question now that our traffic numbers are starting to rise again.
What should we do with the meanings-...
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Should we have "topic" tags like food, people, places, etc.?
I see there is a food tag, which is sort of a general topic that many vocabulary or word choice/usage questions would fall into. That got me thinking whether we should have "topic" tags like food, ...
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Decreasing number of visitors per day
During the last weeks I've been concerned about the number of visitors per day to this site. If I remember well, about one or two weeks ago there were 130 visitors per day, some days ago were only 128,...
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How can we encourage people to ask more questions?
I was just looking through recent questions on the site, and realized that in the past seven days, 27 out of the 33 questions asked were created by myself and just two other users. I realize we're ...
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Should we change the "word-usage" tag to "usage"?
In an answer to another meta question, hippietrail said:
For instance I strongly feel most tags including "word" are bad since they don't allow for idioms, set phrases, and other things we might ...
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Steps out of beta?
I just wanted to express how absolutely awesome I think spanish.stackexchange.com is for a Spanish-language enthusiast like me. I'm really happy to see the site active, and would very much like it to ...
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Proposal regarding meanings-definitions tag
I was recently tagging a question, and see there is now a meanings-definitions tag with two synonyms: meanings and definitions. That seems like an awkward wording (at the very least it should be ...
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punctuation, spelling, and orthography tags
We currently have tags for punctuation, spelling, and orthography. Is there any overlap there, and when should we be using each tag?
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Making minor spelling, grammar, or punctuation edits
When editing posts on StackOverflow, the following message appears:
We welcome all constructive edits, but please make them substantial. Avoid trivial, tiny one-letter edits unless absolutely ...
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What should be in our FAQ?
Please see the new proposed FAQ
I think it's time to begin discussing what should be in our official site FAQ.
Post each suggestion as a separate answer so the community can vote them up or down ...
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Moderator Pro-Tem Announcement
Throughout the beta, we need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we select a few members from each community ...
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Should we have "request" tags?
Tags were recently added for term-request and single-word-request. The intent seems to be a pattern where requests for certain categories of things get their own "request" tag. What does the community ...
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Indicating wrong sentences
Should we adopt a standarized way to indicate that we're writing a sentence that is incorrect?
For example:
Yo soy bien. (I've used it in in this answer)
*Yo soy bien.
×Yo soy bien.
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Should there be a "word" tag?
We currently have a very frequently-used phrase tag, presumably used whenever the question is asking about anything regarding a phrase in English or Spanish. Should there be an analogous word tag for ...
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What should we call our "Chat Room"?
Does anyone have name suggestions for Spanish.SE's chat room? I don't like the current name (Sala de Chat) because it's too common; I think we should choose a distinctive name for our chat room.
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Text buiding blocks
In our sister site TeX.SX, there's a list of pre-designed replies, known as Text building blocks, that are used quite often. This list is quite helpful to give some standard replies with a simple and ...
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Editing misspellings
I know that editing for typos or misspellings should be avoided in Stack Exchange sites. However, as this is a language site, I find dangerous to leave some mistakes in Spanish that could lead to ...
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Is my question/answer ratio something I need to be worrying about?
My Spanish is somewhat rusty and unpracticed. Whilst I am confident in my reading and listening ability, I would not consider myself competent to string too many error-free sentences together.
As a ...
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Moderator Pro-Tem Nominations
This is the post is for nominations for Moderators Pro Tempore for this site. I won't go into too much detail about pro-tem moderators specifically. But if you're not familiar with them, read this ...
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We shouldn't allow questions in Spanglish
First, let me be clear that I am not attacking the OPs of these questions. I think this is an important issue that needs to be brought up soon in the beta process.
A couple sample questions to ...
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Question of English > Spanish and Spanish > English
Discussing with Filmzy we are not really sure if questions that ask a translation from spanish are on-topic on the site.
All this because of this question: COLMO
This question is including a ...
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Embedding images and copyright issues
Along the lines of my other question, I was wondering what the legal guidelines are on embedding images in StackExchange questions and answers. Many questions and answers here are greatly enhanced by ...
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When are answers without sources acceptable?
I have seen a few questions with what appear to be valid answers, but that don't provide any source. This means as a non-native Spanish speaker, I often have no way of knowing if the answer is ...
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What are some good online resources we can use? [duplicate]
Seems like a lot of answers refer to dictionary definitions that are far more comprehensive than whatever results Google is pushing. I've also seen a few links to RAE publications that I don't seem ...
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Quoting sources and copyright issues
Many good answers here so far have involved quotations from dictionaries, RAE publications, etc. What should people keep in mind in terms of copyright rules and legal issues when quoting like this? ...
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Are duplicates in different languages really duplicates?
An issue which will eventually come up, and perhaps it would be best to decide up-front: does a question (e.g. in Spanish) count as a duplicate if it has already been asked, but in the other language (...
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Mixed English/Spanish questions?
The consensus on Should we allow question and answer bodies in Spanish? seems to be that both Spanish and English should be allowed.
However, what about mixing both languages within a single question/...
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Questions about Portuñol or Frespañol
There was recently a question about Portuñol and it's genesis and usage. The argument has been made (by me) that this subject is off-topic for this site, since it's not about Spanish, but about a ...
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Edits less than six characters
On several of the betas, I've run into the "Edits must be at least 6 non-space characters" rule. Five characters or less can make a big difference, especially in technical questions on a short word or ...
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How can we encourage people to flesh out their answers a little?
Is it just me or are there more extremely short answers here than on many SE sites?
Stack Exchange obviously prefers longer answers. Not bloated and not with "filler" but also not just a sentence or ...
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Shouldn't we encourage people to vote up good questions? How?
I've noticed on this beta there seems to be a slightly greater lack of voting for questions than for answers.
Of course I might be a bit biased by looking at my own questions too much - maybe they're ...
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Comparisons with English in questions is OK, what about comparisons with other languages?
Given that the topic of the site is Spanish and the language of Stack Exchange is English it seems of course natural to sometimes compare the two languages within a question about Spanish here.
But ...
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How are we going to deal with spanish regional variations?
It seems to me that a problem we'll have to deal with, specially with answers, is about spanish regional variations.
Native speakers answering questions will naturally tend to provide answers within ...
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Are questions about learning Spanish on-topic?
Is this site purely for experts to provide answers about translation, nuances etc about the Spanish language, or can advice be sought about learning the Spanish language.
For instance:
What tips do ...
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Are questions about English allowed or is the site for learning Spanish only?
I've seen several Spanish site that allow questions both about English and Spanish, making for a two-way flow of knowledge. Will site cater only to English speakers trying to learn Spanish and not the ...
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If I've already asked a question MYSELF on another spanish language forum, is it okay to/should I ask it here as well?
I've was/am active on one or two other Spanish languages forums before this site was created, and asked a multitude of questions there. Is it okay to repeat those questions here? Is it suggested/...
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What about vulgarities and profanities?
I realize that this is the internet and that every manner of vulgarity and profanity can be found within almost no effort whatsoever.
Nonetheless, that does not change the fact that this is a ...
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"translation" tag
I would assume the vast majority of questions on this site will have to do in some way with the translation of a word or phrase from English to Spanish or vice versa. Should we tag all these questions ...
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Easy way to type accented characters
Spanish has several accented or special characters:
áéíóúÁÉÍÓÚüÜñÑ¿¡
Is there any easy way within the question/answer editor or Markdown to type these characters for users who don't have their ...
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Are word translation questions on topic?
Should questions that can easily be answered with a Spanish-English dictionary be considered on topic here?
For example:
How do you say "tablecloth"?
Translation of "miel"
What about phrases that ...
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Should tags be in English, Spanish, or both? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Shall we switch to Spanish-language tags?
As it's not directly asked in this question, should tags on this site be in English only, Spanish only, or both? If both, how should ...
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How can we encourage high-quality, specific questions?
The private beta invite says:
Remember, you get the site you build! Ask difficult, specific questions — the kind of questions pros and experts ask each other, not the kind of questions novices ask ...
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Should we allow question and answer bodies to be written in Spanish?
The following question was asked in Spanish: ¿Cuál es la diferencia entre tú, usted y vos?
This SE is oriented to learning and improving the Spanish language, so it doesn't seem that ...
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